Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“And even though the drunkenness of love Has ruined me, My being’s built upon those ruins for Eternity” — Hafez Copy Share Image
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
“Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Where does that put you?" Montag bit his lip. "I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“MacMurrough shifted his gaze from the thick spittle-wet mouth and stared instead through the garden windows. What a dreary drunk he was.… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“ON GETTING DRUNK: "Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Mr. Brock’s account of his adventure in London has given the reader some short notice of his friend, Mr Macshane. Neither the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Be Drunken, Always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“ Charles Baudelaire: Get Drunk One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
