DRUNKENNESS
From Various sources. Compiled by LaesQ / Raww Arse
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
— Proverb
His mouth has been used as a latrine by some small animal of the night.
— Kingsley Amis (1922– ), British novelist. Describing a hangover. Lucky Jim
Come landlord, fill the flowing bowl,
Until it doth run over...
For tonight we'll merry, merry be,
Tomorrow we'll be sober.
— Anonymous. Come, Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl
Lord George-Brown drunk is a better man than the Prime Minister sober.
— Anonymous. Comparing him with Harold Wilson. The Times, 6 Mar 1976
What shall we do with the drunken sailor
Early in the morning?
Hoo-ray and up she rises
Early in the morning.
— Anonymous. What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor?
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
— Anonymous. The Little Brown Jug
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
— Nancy Astor (1879–1964), American-born British politician.
An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
— Alvan L. Barach (1895– ), Journal of the American Medical Association, 181:393, 1962
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
— St. Basil the Great (c. 330–c. 379), Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Homilies, No. XIV, Ch. 7
For when the wine is in, the wit is out.
— Thomas Becon (1512–67), English Protestant churchman. Catechism, 375
Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
— Bible: Acts 2:13
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
— Bible: Proverbs 20:1
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication.
— Lord Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Don Juan, II
It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.
— Charles Dickens (1812–70), British novelist. Pickwick Papers, Ch. 33
I am as sober as a Judge.
— Henry Fielding (1707–54), British novelist. Don Quixote in England, III:14
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
— Edward Fitzgerald. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, LXXIV
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. It amounts to buying the dream of a thing when you haven't money enough to buy the dreamed-of thing materially.
— Andre Gide (1869–1951), French novelist and critic. Journaux
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
— William James (1842–1910), US psychologist and philosopher. Varieties of Religious Experience
A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.
— James I (1566–1625), King of England. A Counterblast to Tobacco
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
— Samuel Johnson (1709–84), British lexicographer. Life of Johnson (J. Boswell), Vol. III
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
— Herman Melville (1819–91), US novelist. Moby Dick, Ch. 3
Drunkenness... spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men.
— William Penn (1644–1718), English founder of Pennsylvania. Fruits of Solitude, Maxim 72
I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter?
— Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher. Bertrand Russell, Philosopher of the Century (Ralph Schoenman)
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
— Bertrand Russell. The Conquest of Happiness
No, thank you, I was born intoxicated.
— George William Russell (1867–1935), Irish poet and dramatist. Refusing a drink that was offered him. 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories (L. Copeland)
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
— Seneca (c. 4 BC–AD 65), Roman writer. Epistulae ad Lucilium, LXXXIII
But I'm not so think as you drunk I am.
— John Collings Squire (1884–1958), British journalist. Ballade of Soporific Absorption
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
— Dylan Thomas (1914–53), Welsh poet. Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations (Nigel Rees)
Come, Robert, you shall drink twice while I drink once, for I cannot permit the son in his sober senses to witness the intoxication of his father.
— Horace Walpole (1717–97), British writer. Explaining why he filled his son's glass twice for every glass he drank himself. Attrib.
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