Drunkenness Quotes - Page 7

• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Smoking, Alcohol

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Ideas, Drunk

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.197, Vintage

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• According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Excess, Biographies, Kim

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• Flowers should be viewed when half open, wine should be drunk only to subtle intoxication; there is great fun in this. If you view flowers in full bloom and drink to drunkenness, it becomes a bad experience. Those who are living to the full should think about this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fun, Flower, Wine

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• A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

  Charles Bukowski

  Night, Prophet, Profit

  Source: bukowski.net

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• The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

  Charles Chilton Moore

  Lying, Atheism, Slavery

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• Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Order, Use, Affection

  "Holy Lining", Chapter II, Part 2 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 398-399), 1922.

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• Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

  Henry Miller

  Use, Firsts, Navigation

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• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  Anton Chekhov

  Drinking, Vocabulary, Cynical

  Letter to N.A. Leikin, December 24, 1886.

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• Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.

  Margaret of Valois

  Water, Heaven, Spirit

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• Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

  Saint Basil

  Age, Ruins, Reason

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• Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Triumph, Troops, March

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• Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.

  William Henry Irwin

  Hate, Practice, Hatred

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Wine, Beer

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

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• They never taste who always drink.

  Matt Prior

  Taste, Drink

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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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• Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  John Locke

  Character, Army, Science

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• It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

  John Osborne

  Character, Men, May

  John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.48, Oberon Books

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• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

  John Lubbock

  Library, Littles, Cost

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• We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.

  Glenn Loury

  Real, People, Addiction

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

  Horace

  Drinking, Feet, Earth

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• The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

  Charles Lamb

  Drinking, Men, Sober

  1833 Last Essays of Elia,'Confessions of a Drunkard'.

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• I drink to make other people interesting.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drinking, Book, Beer

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

  Wilhelm II

  Funny, Kings, Women

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