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Quotes About Intoxication

If you've found pleasure in drinking, you've found bottled love
~ Giuseppe Giacosa
Andre verschlafen ihren Rausch, Meiner steht auf dem Papiere.
~ Goethe Johann Wolfgang
A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.
~ Author Unknown
When we're drinking the world makes so much sense, but as soon as we sober up it returns to chaos and confusion.
~ Terri Guillemets
When ale is in, wit is out.
~ John Heywood, c.1562
After a few beers, my verbs stumble and my nouns can no longer talk straight. O! yes after a few good beers nouns blunder and verbs fall flat on their faces.
~ Terri Guillemets
Flattery is like champagne; it soon goes to the head.
~ Proverb
We have been led to think that to drink is manly, and to get in a condition where common sense has fled and the tongue is tangled is funny...
~ Elbert Hubbard, 1913
He was remarkably susceptible to music. It was like strong drink, firing him to audacities of feeling, - a drug that laid hold of his imagination and went cloud-soaring through the sky. It banished sordid fact, flooded his mind with beauty, loosed romance and to its heels added wings.
~ Jack London
From .05 to .10 per cent indicates that the subject has been drinking; .10 to .15 you are possibly under the influence of alcohol. From .15 to .25, you are under the influence of liquor and should not be driving. At .25 per cent you are obviously intoxicated; at .35 per cent you are a common drunk and probably unable to take care of yourself; and at .40 per cent, whether you are aware of it or not, you have passed out.
~ Jack Webb
At .50 per cent, you have imbibed a lethal amount of good fellowship.
~ Jack Webb
It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.
~ James Clavell
1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap—coffee and Benzedrine.
~ James Ellroy
There can be no genial companionship among great egotists who have drunk too much.
~ James Ellroy
Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
~ James Frey
We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
~ Ernest Dowson
Before garden, vine or grape was in the world, " writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.
~ Idries Shah, The Sufis
Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.
~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
~ Dean Martin
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
~ Ovid
The drunken man is a living corpse.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
~ George Bernard Shaw