drunkenness quotes

Il est l'heure de s'enivrer! Pour n'e"  tre pas les esclaves martyrise  s duTemps, enivrez-vous sans cesse! De vin, de poe  sie ou de vertu, a'   votre guise. This is the time for drunkenness! Be not the martyred slaves of Time, drink without stopping! Drink wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please.

- Charles Baudelaire
  Le Spleen de Paris,'Enivrez-vous'.

A labouring manthat isgivento drunkennessshall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus19:1.

Drunkenness is a joy reserved for the Gods: so do men partake of it impiously, and so are they very properly punished for their audacity.

-James Branch Cabell
  Jurgen, ch.28.

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkennessor so good as drink.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  All Things Considered,'Wine When It Is Red'.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

-William James
  The Varieties of Religious Experience,'Mysticism'.