Quotes About Intoxication

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details

a drunk did not expect the bottle to love him back,and she only wished to drink him in whenever she could.

Alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

Exasperated, Antonov-Ovseenko called the Petrograd Fire Brigade. 'We tried flooding the cellars with water - but the firemen ... got drunk instead.' The Commissars started smashing the bottles in Palace Square, but 'the crowd drank from the gutters. The drunken ecstasy infected the entire city.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

Like the kind of stuff folks drank in our world that made them giggly and stumbly and sometimes vomity?

É a hora da embriaguez! Para não serdes os martirizados escravos do Tempo, embriagai-vos sem tréguas! De vinho, de poesia ou de virtude, como achardes melhor.

Calix meus inebrians.

The sight of that loveliness was enough to drive all sense from a man's head.

Schalftrunken, farbentrunken, freiheitstrunken - ich weiß nicht, wo ich bin und wo wir fahren. Ich habe vergessen, wo ich herkomme.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Un mondo senza piaceri e senza affetti è un mondo privo di valore. Queste cose deve ricordare il manipolatore scientifico, e, se lo ricorda, le sue manipolazioni potranno riuscire interamente benefiche. E' necessario intanto che gli uomini non siano intossicati dal nuovo potere a tal punto da dimenticare le verità che furono familiari a ogni generazione precedente. Non tutta la saggezza è nuova, né tutta la pazzia è antica.

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations

The drunkard who sees snakes does not imagine, afterwards, that he has had a revelation of a reality hidden from others […]. From a scientific point of view, we can make no distinction between the man who eats little and sees heaven and the man who drinks much and sees snakes.

the man who seeks intoxication, in whatever form, has given up hope except in oblivion.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips /