And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery. — Charles Chilton Moore Copy Share Image
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
“You were just supposed to be a one night stand but you poked my eye, and kissed me sweet and listened to… — Lola Stark Copy Share Image
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“A drunkard never walks where he can fly. Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they… — Dezső Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
“To the Jews, wine was a gift from God and a source of joy (Judg. 9:13; Ps. 104:15). The law did not… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“Take the sin of covetousness. There is more said in the Bible against it than against drunkenness. I must get it out… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Mr Cobb was my escort. Such a nice escort, Mr Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it. — Dan Rice Copy Share Image
“Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In a stupor and the relative comfort of the blur of drunkenness, time goes by more quickly.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace Copy Share Image
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct. — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
“Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
