Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Alcohol

• Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Beer, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.24, Jazzybee Verlag

• A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Men, Water

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.156, Courier Corporation

• I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Alcohol, Call Me

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