Mark Twain Quotes About Drunkenness
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.
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He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.
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