Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long. — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in… — Lady Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
“There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not… — Augusta Jane Evans Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer.” — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“With true understanding, intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) will come down. Intoxication will not come down with wrong understanding.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and… — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When one is intoxicated by the worldly life, one is under illusion. When the intoxication wears away; everything will fall into place.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The High Street was full of farmers, cows, and other animals, the majority of the former well on the road to intoxication.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly… — Mary Wigman Copy Share Image
“Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
