Drunkenness Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Sweet, Devil, Poison

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• I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

  Jim Carrey

  Drunk, My Own

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• You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

  Adolphus Busch

  Money, Humorous, Drinking

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• They who drink beer will think beer.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

  'The Sketch Book' (1820) 'Stratford-on-Avon'

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• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

  Samuel Butler

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  "The Guardian view on drinking culture: statistics, myths and alcohol abuse", www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

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

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• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

  Drinking, Numbers, People

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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• Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Garden, Evil

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• 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

  Gratitude, Strong, Hate

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [390]

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• Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

  Mark Twain

  Dark, Doors, Sobriety

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

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• 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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• 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

  Drunk, Junk, Bottles

  Song: That Don't Make It Junk, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Secret, Promise, Literature

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• Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Loss, Garden, Gambling

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• All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

  Francis Bacon

  Race, Earth, Crime

  "Temperance sermons, delivered in response to an invitation of the National temperance society and publication house". Book by National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873.

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• One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Respect, Ghetto

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• 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

  Suicide, Sacrifice, Triumph

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  Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Drinking

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Alcohol, May

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• Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Crime, Epitome, Intoxication

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.41

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• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Drinking, Book

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