Quotations on Drunkenness
Drunkenness is the ruin of a person. It is premature old age. It is temporary death.
-St. Basil
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
-Bertrand Russell
Drunkenness is not a mere matter of intoxication liquors; it goes deeper -- far deeper. Drunkenness is the failure of a man to control his thoughts.
-David Grayson
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
-Seneca
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
-Ann Landers
Sign seen in a bar: Those drinking to forget please pay in advance.
-GJW135
First the man takes a drink. Then the drink takes a drink. Then the drink takes the man.
-Japanese Proverb
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
-Tom Waits
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
-Robert Benchley

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