Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals, or manners.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
He that is drunk is gone from home.
—French Proverb
Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men.
—German Proverb
He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.
—African Proverb
Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk.
—French Proverb
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.
—Jamaican Proverb
Yesterday’s drunkenness will not quench today’s thirst.
—Egyptian Proverb
The drunken mouth reveals the heart’s secrets.
—German Proverb
You don’t get a headache from what other people have drunk.
—Russian Proverb
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
—Latin Proverb
A red-nosed man may not be a drunkard, but he will always be called one.
—Chinese Proverb
Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.
—Latin Proverb
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
—Douglas William Jerrold (1803–57) English Writer, Dramatist, Wit
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
—Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) French Humanist, Satirist
Intoxicating drinks have produced evils more deadly, because more continuous, than all those caused to mankind by the great historic scourges of war, famine, and pestilence combined.
—William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
Mad drunkenness discloses every secret.
—Latin Proverb
Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen.
—Horace Mann (1796–1859) American Educator, Politician, Educationalist
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory—of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
—French Proverb
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning.
—Danish Proverb
Nothing bears a stronger resemblance to a madman than a man when drunk.
—Latin Proverb
For a drunkard the sea only reaches his knees.
—Russian Proverb
I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.
—Unknown
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not, directly or indirectly, caused by strong drink.
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) English Writer, Poet
Sin when you are drunk, pay the fine when you are sober.
—German Proverb
Wine is one thing, drunkenness another.
—Latin Proverb
Ever drunk, ever dry.
—Latin Proverb