Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. — Bertrand Russell 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
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.” — Anthony Liccione 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
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Only those who’re high on the herb can truly appreciate Marley. Lean back, enjoy life and really listen to him. '…every little… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“These things excite me so ,’ she whispered. ‘If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join.… — Lynda Bellingham Copy Share Image
“Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer… — Douglas Adams 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
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
“I am beginning to feel the drunkenness that this agitated, tumultuous life plunges you into. With such a multitude of objects passing… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to… — John of Kronstadt 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
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
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
“I realise something. My ‘fuck it, I just want to get smashed’ moments are usually about boredom and pleasure-seeking. When I get… — Jill Stark 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
“Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
