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Drunkenness is temporary suicide. -- Bertrand Russell
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. -- William Penn
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. -- William James
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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. -- Saint Augustine
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. -- Andre Gide
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. -- Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. -- Dean Martin
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. -- Saint Basil
Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations. -- Terry Pratchett
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one. -- William Kitchiner
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. -- Bertrand Russell
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Will Durant
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. -- Willa Cather
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink. -- Jeremy Taylor
I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation. -- Paul Auster
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. -- Robert South
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. -- Samuel Beckett
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good. -- Mike Mills
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. -- Diana Trilling
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. -- Jim Carrey
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. -- William Shakespeare
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love. -- Rumi
Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes? -- Henry David Thoreau
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. -- Jonathan Swift
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The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. -- George Herbert
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. -- Marguerite Duras
Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven. -- John Armstrong
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk. -- Leonard Cohen
Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis. -- James Taylor
I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered. -- Winslow Homer
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. -- Frederic Farrar
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. -- J. G. Ballard
Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea. -- Agnes Repplier
The shot glass is half drunk. -- Brian Spellman
I'm not drunk, just a little stoned. -- Gerard Way
One more drink and I'll be under the host. -- Mae West
Drunken men give some of the best pep talks. -- Criss Jami
My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high! -- Habeeb Akande
What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand. -- Flemish Proverb
Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making. -- Thomas Jefferson
I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober. -- Diana Wynne Jones
Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane? -- Terry Pratchett
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. -- Bob Marley
Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down. -- Anthony Liccione
Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us. -- Neil Gaiman
No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin. -- Gail Carriger
The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it. -- Douglas Adams
My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk Iwas. -- Rumi
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. -- Warren Ellis
I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard. -- Hannah Moskowitz
It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits. -- James Clavell
And then she realized that after that Christmas party, she didn't really lose anything, except respect for everyone. -- Crystal Woods
Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto. -- P. G. Wodehouse
I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions. -- Leslie Jamison
He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it. -- Crystal Woods
Lead's erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy -- Criss Jami
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit. -- Criss Jami
...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) -- Jack Kerouac
Tonight," he said, "we shall get quietly and thoroughly drunk...in memory of all that was lost. And on the morrow, I begin the struggle to win it back. -- Sharon Kay Penman
You were just supposed to be a one night stand but you poked my eye, and kissed me sweet and listened to my car. Now, I kinda wanna keep you. -- Lola Stark
There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. -- Richard Kadrey
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. -- Winston Churchill
I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me. -- Ernest Hemingway
It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon. -- Martin Cruz Smith
I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night. -- Dan Ahearn
But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111) -- Jack Kerouac
All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you. -- Paul Gascoigne
Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks."She didn't believe in spirits.""And what became of Henry?""Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself.""Every Saturday night when he came home drunk," Frieda says. -- Stefan Kiesbye
We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, "I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed. -- Anne Rice
Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it. -- James Jones
While binge drinking is a significant issue, it is likely that many members of the public would be surprised by its categorisation as a mental illness, particularly at the milder end."Public confusion caused by differing understandings of the term 'mental illness'.Jorm AF, Reavley NJ.Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2012 May;46(5):397-9. PMID: 22535288 -- Anthony F. Jorm
I'm not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there's always some totally drunk girl who thinks you're smitten by her, when what you're really wondering is if she'll vomit on your shirt or instead on your shoes. -- Dean Koontz
What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness? -- Jonathan Stroud
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. -- Oscar Wilde
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. -- Henry Fielding
[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. -- Erasmus Darwin
A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness. -- Charles Bukowski
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. -- Henry David Thoreau
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night. -- Thornton Wilder
Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk. -- Plutarch
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. -- Margaret of Valois
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. -- Aristophanes
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery. -- Charles Chilton Moore
On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. -- King James I
The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. -- Stephen Crane
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct. -- Hermann Adler
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. -- Horace
Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness. -- Alexander Pope
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life. -- Ben Okri
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. -- Anton Chekhov
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. -- Marcus Aurelius
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. -- Mark Twain
Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families. -- Margaret Sanger
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others. -- William Henry Irwin
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. -- William James
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. -- Francis Bacon
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints... -- John Smith
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. -- Ambrose Bierce
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness. -- Leo Tolstoy
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice. -- Anais Nin
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood". -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Rembrandt
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts. -- Horace

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