Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is…

— William Penn

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

— Seneca the Younger

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for…

— Jeremy Taylor

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

— Erasmus Darwin

When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and…

— Kathy Griffin

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully…

— Anonymous

“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the…

— Patrick O'Brian

“You Are My Drunkenness You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want to anyway.…

— Nazim Hikmet

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

— Seneca the Younger