Top 94 Drunkard Quotes
#1. Be not among z drunkards [5] or among a gluttonous eaters of meat, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and b slumber will clothe them with rags.
Anonymous
#2. But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
Charles Portis
#3. In two days there won't be a single leak, and our boat will have no more water in her than there is in the stomach of a drunkard.
Jules Verne
#4. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Walter Raleigh
#6. Every drunkard has many moments of shame that live like carpet tacks in his memory,
James Lee Burke
#7. A drunkard may not know which number is larger, 2/3 or 3/5, but he knows that 2 bottles of vodka for 3 people is better than 3 bottles of vodka for 5 people.
Edward Frenkel
#8. If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
Charles Bukowski
#9. Finally, it follows from the preceding proposition that the joy by which the drunkard is enslaved is altogether different from the joy which is the portion of the philosopher,
a think I wished just to hint in passing.
Baruch Spinoza
#10. The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana
#11. Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#12. Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.
Anne Rice
#13. It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#14. A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. The belief in miracles that all men cherish is born of immoderate indulgence in hope. There are people who go on hope sprees periodically and we all know the chronic hope drunkard that is held up before us as an exemplary optimist. Tip-takers are all they really are
Anonymous
#16. I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
Jonathan Frid
#17. To the starving man, bread is beautiful. To the homeless man, a roof is beautiful. To the drunkard, wine is beautiful. Only those who want for nothing else need find beauty in a lump of rock. Stolicus
Joe Abercrombie
#18. I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
Leonard Cohen
#20. Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
D. W Brogan
#21. There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.
Barnabe Rich
#22. A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#23. But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"
The poor drunkard is *crying*
He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)
Jack Kerouac
#24. He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Epictetus
#25. He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other[.]
Charles Dickens
#26. Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.
Peter David
#27. Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato
#28. If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
Ernest Shackleton
#29. The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Horace
#30. There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
Abraham Lincoln
#32. A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em,
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.
Cyril Tourneur
#33. ...[A]nd I'll be wiser hereafter
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I to take this drunkard for a god
And worship this dull fool!
---Caliban speaking of Stephano and Trinculo
(lines 298 -301).
William Shakespeare
#34. A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Austin O'Malley
#35. In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply a happy go-lucky kind of guy who likes to work as little as possible in order to enjoy each and every day to the fullest.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#36. Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Francis Quarles
#37. We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination
David Ogilvy
#38. there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir
Marion Chesney
#40. My score grows ever longer, and the day when it will all have to be totted up, like a long-time drunkard's bill in an alehouse, draws ever nearer. However will I pay?
Stephen King
#41. If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.
Diana Gabaldon
#42. A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
Plato
#43. Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi
Leonard Cohen
#44. Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
Khalil Gibran
#45. I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
L.M. Montgomery
#47. Since when is being a rotten drunkard a symbol of freedom?
Elif Shafak
#48. The Destiny Of A Drunkard Is In The Bottle .
Peter Irabor
#49. Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.
Duff McKagan
#50. I'm a special drunkard ... I drink too much.
Bon Scott
#51. I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.
Chris Karlsen
#52. She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.
Lisa Kleypas
#53. A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
Arthur Keith
#54. Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.
Mary Karr
#55. The only shot, his great-nephew confirmed, was fired by a forty-three year old conscripted drunkard who tried to shoot the cock off a weathervane during one of the poor sot's more exuberant outings with the bottle.
William L. Domme
#56. Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram ...
John Muir
#58. Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.
John Lyly
#59. One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women.
Dylan Thomas
#60. ...holding your hand out and making a gesture that, in the surreal parrallel universe of the classroom would suggest that instruction, but anywhere else would be taken for a drunkard's poorly achieved impression of an epileptic spider failing to negotiate a hairpin bend.
Phil Beadle
#61. The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.
Leonard Mlodinow
#63. I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.
Jackie Gleason
#64. If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.
Herman Melville
#65. This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
Adolf Hitler
#66. The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.
George Herbert
#67. I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.
Robertson Davies
#68. One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.
Jaggi Vasudev
#69. A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
#71. We resumed our steady march through the sleeping street. Boulder City was incredibly quiet. If Vegas was the city that never slept, then Boulder made up for it. It slept like a drunkard on a feather bed. We hadn't even been barked at.
Amy Harmon
#72. A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler
#73. To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
Publilius Syrus
#74. The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
George Savile
#75. He was wrong; he knew he was when it was too late for him to stop just as a drunkard reaches a point where it is too late for him to stop, where he promises himself that he will and maybe believes he will or can but it is too late.
William Faulkner
#76. Crosby was in his cups and had the drunkard's illusion that he could speak frankly, provided he spoke affectionately. He spoke frankly and affectionately of Newt's size, something nobody else in the bar had so far commented on.
Kurt Vonnegut
#77. A drunkard never walks where he can fly.
Only the sober believe that the inebriate stagger to and fro. In reality they float on invisible wings and arrive everywhere much earlier than expected.
Dezso Kosztolanyi
#78. Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
George Bernard Shaw
#79. Your son is a drunkard," she informed him. Then she caught a whiff of Roger's breath. "Following in his father's footsteps, I see," she added coldly.
Diana Gabaldon
#80. The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.
Vikas Swarup
#81. In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.
Edward Gibbon
#82. From a labour point of view, there are practically three races, the Malays the Chinese and Tamils. By nature, the Malay is an idler, the Chinaman is a thief, and the Indian is a drunkard. Yet each, in his special class of work, is both cheap and efficient when properly supervised.
Christopher Hale
#83. The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
Bruce Perens
#84. If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
John Dos Passos
#85. These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word ... Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?
Seth Grahame-Smith
#86. The drunkard does indeed find escape, he does indeed find short respite and rest, but he returns from the illusion and finds everything as it was before. He has not grown wiser, he has not gained knowledge, he has not climbed any higher.
Hermann Hesse
#87. I was a dreamer by nature. I was a drunkard as a result of castrated dreams.
Charles Cross
#88. The wine is from God, but the drunkard is from the Devil.
Anonymous
#89. I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
Rumi
#90. The difference between a drunkard and a madman is 10%.
Auliq Ice
#91. I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.
Ray Bradbury
#92. Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him.
Victor Hugo
#93. Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Thiruvalluvar
#94. Berg, while the go-to guy for decisions for past campaigns, engaged in frequent and successful battles against sobriety.
Sally Courtnix
