Drunkard Quotes
67 quotes by 58 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.
— Steven Morrissey
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The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
— John Lyly
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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
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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
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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
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A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
— Austin O'Malley
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To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
— Publilius Syrus
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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
— Plato
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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
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Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
— Arthur Twining Hadley
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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
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I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
— Rumi
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The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the…
— James Gilmour
Who Wrote These Drunkard Quotes
58 authors contributed a total of 67 Drunkard Quotes, led by these top contributors: