A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth,… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James Copy Share Image
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything… — Lynda Bellingham Copy Share Image
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“Miss Dearheart gave him a very brief look, and shook her head. There was movement under the table, a small fleshy kind… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
