“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
. . . 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 best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. — Alben W. Barkley Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Copy Share Image
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one. — William Kitchiner Copy Share Image
“Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying… — James Jones Copy Share Image
We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
“ON GETTING DRUNK: "Those who are Christians are to see to it that they are grateful for grace and redemption and conduct… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
