Quotes About Intoxication

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT to be thoroughly drunk and immune to hunger

The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry.

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.

And then he grasped that this city of machines, this city of sobriety, this fanatic for work, sought, at night, the mighty counterpoise to the frenzy of the day's work—that this city, at night, lost itself, as one insane, as one entirely witless, in the intoxication of a pleasure, which, flinging up to all heights, hurtling down to all depths, was boundlessly blissful and boundlessly destructive

was Aristotle who said that a man who committed an offence while intoxicated was doubly guilty: first of the offence itself, and second of having intoxicated himself.

Meanwhile, as the party ascended to ever dizzier alcoholic altitudes...

Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.

At a dinner which a wealthy Alderman gave to some of the leading members of the government, the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Chancellor were so drunk that they stripped themselves almost stark naked, and were with difficulty prevented from climbing up a signpost to drink His Majesty's health.

For when the wine is in, the wit is out.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

He'll admit to his feelings when he's in his cups. The valet nodded. That's true, ma'am. If we could get him drunk. Clara stifled a laugh. I am not certain I would want a man who has to be drunk to admit his love for me.

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

At such times [drunk] all the doors of a woman's being are opened. The sentinels relax and a kind word is as powerful as gold or love.

Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true.

With the careful steps of the drunk