#drunken

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#drinking #drunkenness #retort #today

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds! ↗

— CrimethInc.

#inebriation #liquor #play #playgrounds #anarchy

I am consciously surrendering conciousness. ↗

— Sarah Dunn

#love

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#drunken #enough #men #sober #themselves

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 loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions. ↗

— Leslie Jamison

#drunk #drunken-behaviour #drunkenness #love

[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state. ↗

— CrimethInc.

#alcohol #drunkenness #anarchy

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. ↗

— Aristotle

#best #drunken #life #neither #nor

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#death #drunk #drunken #leave #making