113 Quotes About Drunkenness
- Author A.E. Housman
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Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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- Author Anne Lamott
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...being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.
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- Author Raymond Chandler
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Mr. Cobb was my escort," she said. "Such a nice escort, Mr. Cobb. So attentive. You should see him sober. I should see him sober. Somebody should him sober. I mean, just for the record. So it could become a part of history, that brief flashing moment, soon buried in time, but never forgotten — when Larry Cobb was sober.
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- Author Mwanandeke Kindembo
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He performed great miracles, like turning water into wine, thus making people to become spiritually drunken.
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- Author Diogenes Laertius
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A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
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- Author Bob Marley
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Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
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- Author A.K. Kuykendall
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Only those who’re high on the herb can truly appreciate Marley. Lean back, enjoy life and really listen to him. '…every little thing gonna be alright…
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- Author Jack Kerouac
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...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113)
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- Author John Cowper Powys
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Wolf’s wits, moving now, in spite of the fumes of smoke and alcohol, with restored clarity, achieved a momentous orientation of many obscure matters.
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