“ There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing. ”
- Joan Allen- Copy
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“ There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
- 449
“ Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. ”
- James F. Byrnes- Copy
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“ Happiness, happiness… the flavor is with you — with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Beauty is worse than wine: it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. ”
- Immermann- Copy
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“ A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 66
“ It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. ”
- Ernest A. Fitzgerald- Copy
- 580
“ Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. ”
- Louis Aragon- Copy
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