Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. — William Henry Irwin Copy Share Image
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't… — Leonard Cohen 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
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. — Anton Chekhov 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
. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say,… — Paul Gascoigne Copy Share Image
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds,… — Horace Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he… — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Copy Share Image
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind… — Edgar Wilson Nye 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
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
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
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
