The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
“The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“You Are My Drunkenness You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“A drunkard never walks where he can fly. Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they… — Dezső Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To the Jews, wine was a gift from God and a source of joy (Judg. 9:13; Ps. 104:15). The law did not… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“Take the sin of covetousness. There is more said in the Bible against it than against drunkenness. I must get it out… — D.L. Moody 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
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges,… — Anais Nin 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
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Farrell had seen pure white drunkenness before, but not often enough to recognize it at sight. He knew the thing itself, however--the… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.” — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“[Arthur] "Er... Just how much did you have to drink?" Merlin frowned at Arthur... Both of him. ” — FayJay Copy Share Image
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct. — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Now she felt as if she were dully humming with an unpleasant, low-grade drunkenness.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are. — Adolphus Busch Copy Share Image
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image