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Tag Name "Drunkard" (51)

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Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.
John Muir
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Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
Khalil Gibran
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
Leonard Cohen
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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
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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
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
Arthur Keith
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A drunkard cannot plead his case.
Nachman of Breslov
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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
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A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.
Plato
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I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.
Bon Scott
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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
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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
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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
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If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.
Diana Gabaldon
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Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.
Steven Morrissey
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
Ernest Shackleton
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.
Thomas Adams
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Other vices make their own way this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Francis Quarles
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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
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.
Greg Mankiw
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Tear gas, rubber bullets, and I would have arrested all the leaders. Oh, only a disgusting drunkard like ex-President Yahya Khan could have sullied himself with an operation carried out so badly and bloodily.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Horace
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