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
Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console. — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino 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
“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
“Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks. "She didn't believe in spirits." "And what became of Henry?" "Oh. From time to… — Stefan Kiesbye Copy Share Image
“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
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
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the… — William Blake 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
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's… — Fernando Pessoa 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
Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Wolf’s wits, moving now, in spite of the fumes of smoke and alcohol, with restored clarity, achieved a momentous orientation of many… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size… — Winslow Homer Copy Share Image
[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a… — Richard Kadrey 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
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lead's erasing then vanishing Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned Running from the pitcher as if it's her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But… — Danny Masterson Copy Share Image
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