“ 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- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 500
“ He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
- 797
“ I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through. ”
- John Oldham- Copy
- 3.2K
“ He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. ”
- Romano Prodi- Copy
- 327
“ What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.1K
“ One should always be drunk. That's all that matters.... But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us — not to mention our crockery and our woolens! ”
- Aristophanes- Copy
- 475
“ For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Alcoholic beverages are to New Year's as a turkey is to Thanksgiving and a jack-o'-lantern is to Halloween. It's the central iconographic image. There's not much else. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Those who say, 'Well, she was just a drunk,' will get an understanding of what her demons were, what drove her and why she was the way she was. ”
- Adrienne Barbeau- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ”
- Jim Bishop- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter. ”
- Anton Chekhov- Copy
- 571
“ I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. ”
- Denis E. Brogan- Copy
- 320
“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. ”
- Otto Von Bismarck- Copy
- 1K
“ Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ”
- Thomas Willis- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
- 2.4K
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