Top 95 Drunkard Quotes & Sayings

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost – for support, not for illumination.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

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.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.

A drunkard cannot plead his case.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

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.

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.

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

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.

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

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.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

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.

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.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.

I am simply a book drunkard.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

There were lots of perceptions about me, right from being gay to casting couch to being a drunkard to getting violent, none of what I am in real life.

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.