Drunkenness Quotes

143 Drunkenness quotes by 116 unique authors

. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how… — Wole Soyinka
Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang… — Mike Yaconelli
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the… — Li Bai
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It… — Paul Valery
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production… — Graham Hancock
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. — Ambrose Bierce
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts. — Horace
Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. — Thomas Lansing Masson
Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in "regular" medical literature. I… — Herbert M. Shelton
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. — Wilhelm Reich
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of… — Theodore Dalrymple
Of course one should not drink much, but often. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established… — Frederic Farrar
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. — Andre Gide
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. — Horace
Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes? — Henry David Thoreau
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool… — William Blake
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. — Samuel Johnson
Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others,… — Robin Williams
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to… — Fernando Pessoa

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