Drink, pretty creature, drink! [ Wordsworth ]
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn. [ Burns ]
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. [ South ]
Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it. [ Prior ]
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. [ William Shakespeare ]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [ Seneca ]
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. [ Proverb ]
Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits.
Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. [ Zimmermann ]
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. [ Prov. 23: 21 ]
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Drunkenness makes men fools; some beasts, some devils. [ Proverb ]
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service. [ Plato ]
Hunger scarce kills any, but gluttony and drunkenness multitudes. [ Proverb ]
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. [ William Shakespeare ]
'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea +{Drink, Drunkenness} and coffee leave us much more serious. [ Byron ]
Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles to see the devil and all his works. [ Proverb ]
Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. [ Proverb ]
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. [ Fielding ]
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink. [ Bible ]
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. [ Swift ]
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. [ Judge Coleridge ]
A vine bears three grapes - the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. [ Anacharsis ]
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. [ Saville ]
In my interview with the king of the French, he stated expressly that the drunkenness of France was occasioned by wine. [ Hon. E. C. Delavan ]
When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift - no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course - he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom. [ Holmes ]
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts. [ Whipple ]