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
“[Arthur] "Er... Just how much did you have to drink?" Merlin frowned at Arthur... Both of him. ” — FayJay Copy Share Image
“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —… — Kamand Kojouri 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
There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join.… — Lynda Bellingham 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
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius 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
It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to… — John of Kronstadt 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
“The lover drinks and the cup-bearer pours. The lover thinks but the cup-bearer knows: love begets love. Since this wine is love,… — Kamand Kojouri 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
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
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
“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 have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. — Richard Burton 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
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
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
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man - if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful… — Wyndham Lewis 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
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
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