Quotes on Alcohol Abuse

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.