Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Alcohol

• God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Godly, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Coffee, Alcohol

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик

• The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beer, Alcohol, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.142, Harvard University Press

• All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Alcohol, Rare Moments

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Alcohol, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.199, Penguin

• Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Time, Coffee

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.284

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