A drunkard's purse is a bottle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]

The drunkard continually assaults his own life. [ Proverb ]

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. [ Zimmermann ]

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. [ Prov. 23: 21 ]

The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light;
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path, and Titan's fiery wheels. [ William Shakespeare ]

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard. [ John B. Gough ]

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service. [ Plato ]

Let the drunkard alone, and by and bye he will fall of himself. [ Proverb ]

Sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name. [ William Shakespeare ]

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. [ Francis Quarles ]

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. [ Saville ]

Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. [ Saville ]