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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drinking, Alcohol, Literature
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drinking, Laughing, Would Be
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drinking, Beer, Thank God
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drinking, People, Driving

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Philosophy, Drinking
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drinking, Beer, Animal
All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red"

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dog, Drinking, Men

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