#drunk

Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#sobriety #love

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#drunk #get #himself #i #i think

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#bread #broken #communion #drunk #more

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#drunk #eaten #ever #himself #many

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#drink #drunk #floor #lies #more

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#air force #around #became #bill #bill clinton

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#bus #different #drunk #like #sober

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#illumination #like #more #statistics #support

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#more #old #physicians #than