Quotes about Intoxication
The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.
- Aristotle
Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
- DH Lawrence
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
- William Faulkner
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- Samuel Johnson
I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.
- Anonymous
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
- Samuel Johnson
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
- LM Montgomery
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
- LM Montgomery