Drunkenness Quotes - Page 8

• Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Suicidal, Alcohol

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Sick, Drink

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 229, 2006.

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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. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

  William Penn

  Men, Drunk, Mad

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

  Roland Barthes

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• The only proper intoxication is conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Conversation, Intoxication

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

  John Cheever

  Hands, Numbers, Bars

  John Cheever (2011). “The Journals”, p.112, Random House

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• I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

  Marcel Proust

  Giving, Magic, Firsts

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sensuality, Temperance, Seasoning

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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• Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

  Robin Williams

  Dancer, Lap, Kind

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, December 6, 2009.

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• Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

  Horace

  War, Wine, Hardship

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• Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Smart, Two, Evil

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• Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Madness

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• A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.

  Thomas Adams

  Children, Wife, Sorrow

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• He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Spring, Law, Luxury

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• Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices

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• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blood, Generosity, Genius

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.278, Wildside Press LLC

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Men, Hoe, Vices

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• 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

  Men, Gambling, Sin

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.76

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• To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet

  Li Bai

  Wine, Night, Heaven

  Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

  Louis MacNeice

  Thinking, World, Spit

  Poems (1935) "Snow"

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• 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

  Gold, Rooms, Would Be

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• Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.

  Graham Hancock

  People, Our Society, Society Today

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