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Quotes About Intoxication

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
~ Giuseppe Garibaldi
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
~ George W. Russell
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love.
~ Antiphanes
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
~ J. B. Gough
Plamen - to je pijanstvo nežive prirode.
~ Ivo Andri?
ja nalazim da je u pasjem zavijanju daleko manje zlo?e i okorelosti srca nego u pevanju ovih ljudi kad su pijani ili prosto poneseni svojim besom.
~ Ivo Andri?
Marissa, he mumbled, taking her hand. Don't want to see you drink so much? Wait, not really what he'd been going for. Ah...don't you to see me drink so much...want. Whatever. God...he was so confused.~Butch
~ J.R. Ward
The door to the PT suite swung open, and Peyton appeared between the jambs with a bottle of liquor in his hand, an arousal in his pants, and the wild look in his eye of someone over the brink. In this current incarnation, the male was something right out of the Bad Idea Catalog. And what do you know ... a blond male with an able body was exactly what she wanted in her virtual shopping cart.
~ J.R. Ward
the first sip is joy the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
~ Jack Kerouac
The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the 'kick'.
~ Jack London
In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.
~ Mooji
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
~ John Calvin
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
~ Samuel Johnson
Codeine . . . bourbon.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
A drunkard's words are gone when the next day dawns.
~ Tamil proverb
A drunkard's words are gone by the next dawn.
~ Tamil proverb
If Ewan was a drink... he'd be whisky because he seems like a good idea when you're drunk but he makes you feel like shit in the morning. Haha!
~ Tammy Cohen
I threw flips and cartwheels straight across the grass, fuck my imaginary stitches, fuck whether Lexie had done gymnastics, I couldn't remember the last time I had been this drunk and I loved it. I wanted to dive deeper into it and never come up for air, open my mouth and take a huge breath and drown on this night
~ Tana French
She would walk toward him, sniffing the air around him, like a hound. He smelled of alcohol—not
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
The whole place reeked of tharra.
~ Tarquin Hall
Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure.
~ Tarun J. Tejpal
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
~ Jose Bergamin
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson