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I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender. -- Jonathan Frid
Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil. -- Increase Mather
I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much. -- Bon Scott
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. -- Arthur Keith
If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard. -- Ernest Shackleton
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. -- Epictetus
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. -- Plato
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process. -- Bruce Perens
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject. -- George Savile
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
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. -- Samuel Butler
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. -- Henri Matisse
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. -- John Dos Passos
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination. -- David Ogilvy
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. -- William Graham Sumner
I am simply a book drunkard. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
A drunkard cannot plead his case. -- Nachman of Breslov
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard. -- Steven Morrissey
The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. -- Horace
The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard. -- John Bartholomew Gough
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service. -- Plato
Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram... -- John Muir
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard. -- Khalil Gibran
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house. -- Publilius Syrus
A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk. -- William Butler Yeats
The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts -- Leonard Cohen
If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago. -- Charles Bukowski
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. -- Arthur Twining Hadley
Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard. -- John Lyly
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. -- George Herbert
A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. -- Cyril Tourneur
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. -- Thiruvalluvar
Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings. -- Jackie Gleason
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle. -- Diana Gabaldon
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. -- Rumi
We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination -- David Ogilvy
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. -- Francis Quarles
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. -- D. W Brogan
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
A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool? -- Charles Portis
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays. -- Barnabe Rich
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates. -- Bob Jones, Sr.
If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination. -- Greg Mankiw
This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool. -- Adolf Hitler
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox . . . -- Stanislaw Lem
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. -- Walter Raleigh
Tear gas, rubber bullets, and I would have arrested all the leaders. Oh, only a disgusting drunkard like ex-President Yahya Khan could have sullied himself with an operation carried out so badly and bloodily. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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