A Short History of Drunkenness Quotes

“This leads to the great theory of human history: that we didn’t start farming because we wanted food—there was loads of that around. We started farming because we wanted booze.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

“When the Ancient Persians had a big political decision to make they would debate the matter twice: once drunk, and once sober. If they came to the same conclusion both times, they acted.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

“Basically, Plato thought that if you can trust a fellow when he’s drunk, you can trust him anywhere.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness

“Anyway, they invented civilization and it's been downhill ever since.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness

“The sins of a society are revealed in its pieties.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness

“Había un proverbio sumerio que decía "Él es temeroso, como un hombre que no conoce la cerveza" y otro, todavía más revelador, que decía "No conocer la cerveza no es normal".”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness

“This teaches us the important moral lesson that it’s absolutely fine to get pass-out-naked pissed, but it is absolutely not all right to notice. You should politely avert your eyes.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

“if authors were to let a trifling thing like ignorance stop them from writing, the bookshops would be empty.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

“Así pues, ¿por qué nos establecemos? La línea tradicional dice que lo hicimos para cultivar comida. En ese caso, quizá comenzamos a preparar bebidas. Y luego comenzamos a construir grandes templos y nos civilizamos”
― Mark Forsyth, Una borrachera cósmica: Una historia universal del placer de beber