Getting Drunk Quotes

• An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Drunk

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 389 (24 April 1779)

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• Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drunk, Enough, Obvious

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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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• There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

  Chelsea Handler

  Party, Drinking, Two

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.84, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

  Bette Midler

  Drinking, Drunk, Perspective

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

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• I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

  Mark Oliver Everett

  Trust, Drinking, People

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• Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

  Maya Angelou

  Trust, Drinking, Laughing

  "Maya Angelou: Best-Selling Poet Shares Story of Her Life and Work" by Brent Cunningham, www.buffalo.edu. April 30, 1998.

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• I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

  John Huston

  God, Drinking, Beer

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

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• Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

  Sophia Bush

  Stay Strong, Drunk, Reputation

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  Hannah More

  Funny, Women, Memorable

  Letter to her sister, 1775

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• I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

  George Best

  Morning, Drunk, Intention

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• You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Drunk, Wish

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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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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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy

  Amy Lee

  Lying, Party, Thinking

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• If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Night, Drunk, Leaving

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• Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.

  Peg Bracken

  Drinking, Drunk

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• Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.

  Molly Ringwald

  Real, Kids, Animal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .

  Jim Morrison

  Suicide, Differences, Drunk

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• Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave

  Dan Buettner

  Drunk, Suffering, Arguing

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• There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Drunk, Devil

  "Natural Law". Harvard Law Review, 1918.

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• Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spring, Ideas, Drunk

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.sfgate.com. 2008.

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• Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

  Poul Anderson

  Drunk, Serious Business, Settling

  Poul Anderson (2015). “Fire Time”, p.27, Open Road Media

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