A Collection of Sayings About Drink
Illustration★★We drink to one another’s health, And yet before we’ve finished Our round of toasts, our state of health Has noticeable diminished. Only weak character lean on strong drink! Boozers are losers! When the wine goes in, strange things come out. –Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799, act 2, scene 12.
There are two finishes for automobiles: lacquer and liquor Glasses can make driving a lot safer. Providing, of course, that they’re worn instead of emptied. A college is truly a fountain of knowledge, and a great many go there to drink. People who say that many things drive them to drink should walk.
Accidents happen every hunting season because both hunter and gun are loaded. To escape alcoholism is simple. Never take the drink just before the second one.
Yes, liquor still is digging graves. Of multitudes it first enslaves; It’s breaking hearts and bringing sighs And wringing tears from many eyes! Why battle your way to the top and bottle your way to the bottom? One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I’m having a good time.
Four reasons for not drinking: the head is clearer, the health is better, the heart is lighter, and the purse is heavier. Drinking is the one thing you don’t get better at the more you do it.
— Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
J.R. Moehriger, The Piccolomini.
The point
A collection of pithy sayings and rhymes warns, often with humor, about the false promises and real wreckage of alcohol.