Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. — Horace Copy Share Image
I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. — William Henry Irwin Copy Share Image
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say,… — Paul Gascoigne Copy Share Image
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds,… — Horace Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind… — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
“It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, for just as long, others have warned about its dangers. "Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness," wrote Seneca… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage 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
I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
“Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
