What a sober man has in his heart, a drunken man has on his lips.
—Danish Proverb
Yesterday’s drunkenness will not quench today’s thirst.
—Egyptian Proverb
A drunken may soon be made to dance.
—Danish Proverb
Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.
—Latin Proverb
Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.
—French Proverb
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunk.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
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
The drunken man’s joy is often the sober man’s sorrow.
—Danish Proverb
What is a drunken man like? Like a drown’d man, a fool, and a madman; one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness. Other vices are but the fruits of disordered affections; this disorders, nay banishes reason.—Other vices but impair the soul; this demolishes her two chief acuities, the understanding and the will. Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices.—He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
—Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet
There’s no harm in wine; it’s drunkenness that is at fault.
—Russian Proverb
Drunkards talk to the gods.
—Chinese Proverb
I don’t drink; I don’t like it—it makes me feel good.
—Oscar Levant (1906–72) American Musician, Composer, Author, Comedian, Actor
Troops of furies march in the drunkard’s triumph.
—Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (1728–95) Swiss Philosophical Writer, Naturalist, Physician
Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
—Irish 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
He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.
—African Proverb
A drunken night makes a cloudy morning.
—Danish Proverb
Beware of drunkenness, lest all good men beware of thee.—Where drunkenness reigns, there reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, and God an enemy; blasphemy is wit, oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations.
—Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet
When your companions get drunk and fight, Take up your hat, and wish them good night.
—Japanese Proverb
A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone.
—Latin Proverb
Sin when you are drunk, pay the fine when you are sober.
—German Proverb
A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk—a good man about what he has seen and heard.
—Chinese Proverb
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
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
—Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) French Humanist, Satirist
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not, directly or indirectly, caused by strong drink.
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) English Writer, Poet
Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.
—Persian Proverb
Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk.
—French Proverb
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