Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. — King James I Copy Share Image
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Copy Share Image
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints. — John Smith Copy Share Image
“He sat beside me pleasantly and played his sweet music to me, and in the end he foretold things that put drunkenness… — Augusta Gregory Copy Share Image
“You Are My Drunkenness You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The more we allow God’s “wine” (the Holy Spirit, see Eph 5:18) to purify our hearts through holy drunkenness, the more we… — Ascension Press Copy Share Image
Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular"… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army… — George Washington Copy Share Image
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one. — William Kitchiner Copy Share Image
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. — William James Copy Share Image
“Treat a disease with drunkenness, laughter, and sport. If you find any trace of it after that, give it to me.” — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Life is a perpetual drunkenness; the pleasure passes, but the headache remains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
