Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, /…

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of…

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. It makes…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

— Alexandre Dumas

“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

— John Muir

If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely…

— Lyman Abbott

“Down Where the Drunkards Roll.” “How”

— Ian Rankin

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

— Steven Morrissey

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

— Austin O'Malley

There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.

— George Herbert

That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard…

— Stanislaw Lem

God helps three sorts of people: fools, children and drunkards

— Proverb