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Macduff: What
three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry,
sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
I'm only a
beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
At the
punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in
Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a
drink, then the drink takes the man!
-- Edward Rowland Sill
I'm not so
think as you drunk I am.
-- John Squire
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Wine is
bottled poetry.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
No power on
earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to
terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan
could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which
to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!
-- Eliza ''Mother'' Stewart
Better belly
burst than good liquor be lost.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
There are two
things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one
of them is that he has taken to drink.
-- Booth Tarkington
1869-1946, American Writer
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