Drunken Quotes
143 Drunken quotes by 111 unique authors
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has…
— Watchman Nee
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
— Samuel Smiles
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Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other
— Martin Luther
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Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for…
— Diane Johnson
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God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is…
— Martin Prechtel
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For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head,…
— Charles Lamb
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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We could say they government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.
— Ronald Reagan
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends…
— Samuel Johnson
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A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
— Arthur Laffer
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The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
— Aristotle
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Drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.
— Ray Charles
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With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their…
— Adrian McKinty
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Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race…
— Jane Addams
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If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity…
— John Goodman
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Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink…
— William Ernest Henley
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If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,…
— George Orwell
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the…
— Antonio Villaraigosa
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Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.
— Criss Jami
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When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.
— Nick Moran
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a…
— Joyce Cary
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I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine…
— Lady Jane Grey
Who Wrote These Drunken Quotes
111 authors contributed a total of 143 Drunken Quotes, led by these top contributors: