Drunkard Quotes

67 quotes by 58 authors

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school… — Samuel Butler
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the… — Thomas Adams
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out… — Charles Bukowski
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine… — Increase Mather
Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard. — Steven Morrissey
The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard. — John Lyly
All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between minds than between… — Swami Vivekananda
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him… — William Graham Sumner
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it… — William Graham Sumner
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head. — Austin O'Malley
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house. — Publilius Syrus
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. — Plato
The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker,… — Vikas Swarup
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. — Arthur Twining Hadley
A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. — Rumi
The ten days we passed there [at Ta ChÃªng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the… — James Gilmour

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