Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans…

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

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

A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent,…

— Thomas Adams

“All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort.”

— William Penn

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are…

— William Penn

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

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

— Margaret Sanger

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Bertrand Russell