Drunkenness Quotes

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

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 some claim to being considered a learned man.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

It's hogwash to say drunkenness is no excuse for crime... Wherever mind altering drugs are on sale to the public, we should expect mind altered behaviour from the public.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.