Drunkards Quotes - Page 5

• He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Glasses, Drunk

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.372

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• You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Love Is, Alaska

  "Time" magazine, June 26, 1950.

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• I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

  David Ogilvy

  Illumination, Support, Marketing

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Class, Alcohol, Firsts

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• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Liars, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.

  Stephen Colbert

  Children, People, Telling The Truth

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• I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Blow, Bangs

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Writing, Temptation

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• Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Lovers, Knows

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• Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

  Thornton Wilder

  Integrity, Liars, Two

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 3.

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• Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Real, Escaping

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.212, Penguin

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• Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

  Thomas Willis

  Broken Heart, Men, Parent

  "Psychological problems in mental deficiency" by Seymour B. Sarason, p. 211, 1969.

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• Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

  Fritz Leiber

  Equal, Madmen, Nations

  Fritz Leiber (2015). “The Big Time: Top Science Fiction”, p.16, 谷月社

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• The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all.

  Ali Khamenei

  America, People, Decision

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• Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

  John Muir

  People, Missing, Flesh

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.24, Great West Books

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• Boozing does not necessarily have to go hand in hand with being a writer. . .I therefore solemnly declare to all young men trying to become writers that they do not actually have to become drunkards first.

  Nelson W. Aldrich

  Men, Hands, Trying

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• In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Hands, Wife

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, Guizot (M., François), Sir William Smith (1862). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.298

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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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• Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

  Francis Quarles

  Vices, Way, Intemperance

  Francis Quarles (1681). “Enchiridion: containing institutions, divine ... moral”, p.174

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• The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Praise

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• There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.359

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• If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

  Greg Mankiw

  Illumination, Support, Lamps

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• What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, Cowboy, Play

  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963). Sounds like some writers.

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• The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

  Corra May Harris

  Christian, Country, Cities

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• A drunkard is a dead man
  And all dead men are drunk.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Men, Drunk

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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