Drunkards Quotes

• It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

  George Burns

  Clever, Drinking, Drunk

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• Reasoning with a drunkard is like
  Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, Water, Torches

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• 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

  Wine, Godly, Abuse

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• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

  Francois Rabelais

  Humorous, Drinking, Wine

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.142, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Wine

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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• What do drunkards do? They... drink... themselves... to... death.

  William Seabrook

  Drink

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• Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

  Khalil Gibran

  Ignorant, Arguing, Foolish

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• 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

  Believe, Fall, Drinking

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.88, Library of America

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• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? 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

  Love, Men, Order

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• I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

  Robertson Davies

  School, Sunday, Boys

  "Forgotten Dialogues". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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• There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Doctors

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

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• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Law, Survival

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• Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

  William James

  Anxiety, Experts, Saint

  William James (2017). “Habit”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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• Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Queens, Nice, Sleep

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• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Children, America, Political

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• When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, World, Moments

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski (Chapter 31), 1975.

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• I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

  Bon Scott

  Special, Too Much, Drink

  "Character: Bon Scott". "AC/DC: Let There Be Rock", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Boredom, Made, Ennui

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• 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

  Done, Fool, Inclination

  Charles Portis (2010). “True Grit: A Novel”, p.84, The Overlook Press

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• If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Long Ago, Committed

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• The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Evil, Infatuation

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• 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

  Aggravation, Gutters, Decline

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.114, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• 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

  Men, Vanity, Vices

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• 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.

  Children, Doe, Littles

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