Coldness Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

— Anonymous

“Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create…

— Henry Fielding

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit…

— Agnes Repplier

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

— A. E. Housman

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

— Tennessee Williams

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is…

— William Penn

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

— Christopher Morley

We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without…

— William Godwin

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”

— Tennessee Williams