Drunkenness Quotes - Page 2

• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Alcohol, Brain

  1603-4 Cassio, of wine. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.283-5.

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• 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

  Suicidal, Long, Wife

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• 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

  Giving Up, Mistake, Drinking

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• Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.

  Steven Pressfield

  Talking, Ego, Demolition

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• A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thrones, Taverns, Chairs

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Glasses, Drunk

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• Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Baby, Motivational Sports

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Drinking, Wine, Virtue

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.174, Infobase Publishing

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• Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Insanity

  Epistulae ad Lucilium LXXXIII

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• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  Jack Nicholson

  Beer, World, Drink

  "Ageless Jack Nicholson Takes Youthful Holiday Splurge" by Moms Zhou, abcnews.go.com. August 5, 2009.

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  You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

  Dean Martin

  Clever, Lying, Humorous

  In Paul Dickson Official Rules (1978) p. 112

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• All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

  William Penn

  Men, Mind, He Man

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• Of course one should not drink much, but often.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Drink, Should, Courses

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• Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Substitutes

  Andre Gide (1953). “Marshlands and Prometheus Misbound”

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drinking, Beer, Animal

  All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red"

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• Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

  Aristophanes

  Clever, Wine, Mind

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

  George Meredith

  Soul, Oblivion, Drink

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
  All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

  George Herbert

  Men, Beast, Forfeit

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• The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beer, Alcohol, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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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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• All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

  William Blake

  Drunk, Fool, Paint

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.641, Pearson Education

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• Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

  Francis Quarles

  Two, Understanding, Soul

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• The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Self, Drunk, Touching

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