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Quotes About Inebriation

Kabîr says: "Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise, and the wise man becomes speechless and silent, The worshipper is utterly inebriated, His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect; He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings of love.
~ Kabir
Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.
~ Frank Skinner
As for my landlord, drinking was his trade; and the liquor had no more effect on him than it had on any other vessel in his house. The
~ Henry Fielding
The stairwell smelled of piss and stale beer—two stages in a conjugation that usually ends with "dead-drunk guy facedown in his own vomit.
~ Mike Carey
drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat
~ Terry Pratchett
Yep. Reckon y'all dumb meat-sacks 'bout to get fornicated and buzzed up right nice.
~ Bryan Smith
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy--and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.
~ Thomas Hardy
Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
~ Thomas Jefferson
At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.
~ Thomas Pynchon
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.
~ Old saying
Hay que estar siempre ebrio. Nada más: ése es todo el asunto. Para no sentir el horrible peso del Tiempo que os fatiga la espalda y os inclina hacia la tierra, tenéis que embriagaros sin tregua. Pero, ¿de qué? De vino, de poesía o de virtud, como queráis. Pero embriagaos.
~ Charles Baudelaire
it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.
~ Charles Bukowski
Of course, you leave afterwards or get very drunk which is the same thing.
~ Charles Bukowski
A un mono americano, un ateles, que se embriagó con coñac , nunca más se le pudo hacer que lo volviese a probar, en lo que obraba con mayor cordura que muchos hombres El Origen del Hombre
~ Charles Darwin
Alcohol, she suddenly understood, would solve this problem. It would create other, more pressing problems, but for now, steadily rising into inebriation, she felt like she could handle the situation at hand. She could deal with shit.
~ Kevin Wilson
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
~ George Herbert
Plamen - to je pijanstvo nežive prirode.
~ Ivo Andri?
I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.
~ Jack Kerouac
The whole place reeked of tharra.
~ Tarquin Hall
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
Wine, for serious drunks, enjoys only a limited success. There is, concerning inebriation, black magic and white magic; wine is only white magic.
~ Victor Hugo
When ale is in, wit is out.
~ John Heywood, c.1562