“The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss— unadulterated and… — Sol Luckman 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
I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates 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
Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.” — Douglas Adams 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
“The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve, when you get… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the… — Roman Payne 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
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they… — Dan Ahearn Copy Share Image
