Drunkenness Quotes
- A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk — a good man about what he has seen and heard.~ Chinese Proverb
- A drunkards purse is a bottle.~ George Herbert
- A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. ~ Latin Proverb
- A drunken may soon be made to dance.~ Danish Proverb
- A drunken night makes a cloudy morning. ~ Danish Proverb
- A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.~ Jim Bishop
- A man can hide all things, excepting twain– That he is drunk, and that he is in love.~ Antiphanes of Macedonia
- A red-nosed man may not be a drunkard, but he will always be called one.~ Chinese Proverb
- Children and drunks always speak the truth.~ Traditional Proverb
- Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do ‘t to-morrow.~ John Fletcher
- Drunkards know no danger.~ Ukranian Proverb
- Drunkards talk to the gods.~ Chinese Proverb
- Drunkenness does not itself cause bad qualities but it does show them up clearly.~ Chinese Proverb
- Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.~Latin Proverb
- Drunk sweetly, paid sourly.~ German Proverb
- Eat until you are half full; drink until you are half drunk.~ Russian Proverb
- Even the smallest drop is appreciated by the drunkard.~ Lithuanian Proverb
- Ever drunk, ever dry. ~ Latin Proverb
- Fools love not the wise, drunkards love not the sober.~ Ukranian Proverb
- For a drunkard the sea only reaches his knees.~ Russian Proverb
- Heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men. ~ German Proverb
- He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.~ Epictetus
- He that is drunk is gone from home. ~ French Proverb
- He who drinks on credit, gets drunk twice.~ Serbian Proverb
- He who is drunk from wine can sober up, he who is drunk from wealth cannot.~ African Proverb
- He who is not drunk on a Sunday is not worth a greeting on Monday.~ Albanian Proverb
- He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.~ Decimus Laberius
- I don’t drink; I don’t like it – it makes me feel good.~ Oscar Levant
- I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.~ Frank Sinatra
- If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition.~ Tibetan Proverb
- If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.~ Jamaican Proverb
- I have drunk, and seen the spider. ~ William Shakespeare
- It pays to get drunk with the best people. ~ Joe E Lewis
- Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.~ Iranian Proverb
- Mad drunkenness discloses every secret. ~ Latin Proverb
- Nothing bears a stronger resemblance to a madman than a man when drunk. ~ Latin Proverb
- Nothing equals the joy of the drinker, except the joy of the wine in being drunk.~ French Proverb
- One reason why I don’t drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.~ Nancy Witcher Astor
- Only a fool gets drunk from his own bottle.~ French Proverb
- Put no faith in a drunkard’s prophecy, another man’s dog, or the weather at any season.~ Darkovan Proverb
- Since the wine is drawn it must be drunk. ~ French Proverb
- Sin when you are drunk, pay the fine when you are sober.~ German Proverb
- The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.~ Alben W. Barkley
- The best cure for drunkenness is whilst sober to observe a drunken person. ~ Chinese Proverb
- The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk. ~ Spanish Proverb
- The devil places a pillow for a drunken man to fall upon.~ Canadian Proverb
- The drunkard thinks of only one thing and the barman of something else.~ Croatian Proverb
- The drunken man’s joy is often the sober man’s sorrow. ~ Danish Proverb
- The drunken mouth reveals the heart’s secrets. ~ German Proverb
- The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.~ Humphrey Bogart
- There’s no harm in wine; it’s drunkenness that is at fault.~ Russian Proverb
- There are more old drunkards than old doctors.~ French Proverb
- There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness.~ Hungarian Proverb
- The sheep drinks but it’s the goat that gets drunk.~ Martiniquais Proverb
- The sober man’s secret is the drunkard’s speech.~ Russian Proverb
- The wine has been poured and must be drunk.~ Darkovan Proverb
- The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.~ William Butler Yeats
- Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.~ Irish Proverb
- To be drunk every day is also a regular life.~ Austrian Proverb
- To drunken mothers-in-law give full jugs.~ Spanish Proverb
- To stop drinking, study a drunkard when you are sober.~ Chinese Proverb
- What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.~ Latin Proverb
- What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.~ Danish Proverb
- What the sober man thinks the drunkard tells.~ French Proverb
- What you say when you’re drunk should have been thought about beforehand.~ Belgian Proverb
- When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk.~ Sir Richard Burton
- When a rich man falls they say it was an accident; when a poor man falls they say that he was drunk.~ Turkish Proverb
- When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.~ Jesse Jackson
- When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.~ Georgian Proverb
- When your companions get drunk and fight, Take up your hat, and wish them good night.~ Japanese Proverb
- Whoever drinks on credit gets drunk more quickly.~ Armenian Proverb
- Wine bears no blame — only the drunkard.~ Russian Proverb
- Wine is given to bring mirth not drunkenness.~ Latin Proverb
- Wine is one thing, drunkenness another. ~ Latin Proverb
- Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunk.~ George Herbert
- Yesterday’s drunkenness will not quench today’s thirst.~ Egyptian Proverb
- You don’t get a headache from what other people have drunk.~ Russian Proverb
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