Quotes on Drunkenness

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

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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.

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

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

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.