Drunkard Quotes (20 quotes)

“Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
― Thiruvalluvar, Holy Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

tags: alcohol, analogy, drowning, drunkard, dunk, reason, reasoning, simile, torch, water

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“… With great alcohol comes great irresponsibility.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: alcohol, beer, booze, drunk, drunkard, irresponsibility, irresponsible, responsibility, responsible, wine

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“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: achieve, achievements, addict, addiction, ancestors, association, attack, attacking, crafty, daydream, dream, dreaming, drink, drinking, drive, driving, drunk, drunkard, empty, empty-pockets, experience, fame, food-for-thought, fools, friends, friendships, illusion, life-lessons, michael-bassey-johnson, pauper, perfection, poverty, trance, wine, wisdom, wise, work, working

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“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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“He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other[.]”
― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

tags: alcoholic, drunkard, funny, humorous

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“Like shyness, cowardice cannot swim in alcohol.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: alcohol, beer, coward, cowardice, drunk, drunkard, shy, shyness, tipsy, wine

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“Berg, while the go-to guy for decisions for past campaigns, engaged in frequent and successful battles against sobriety.”
― Sally Courtnix, Brede: An erotic fairy tale

tags: alcoholic, drunk, drunkard, leadership

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“Headaches are for sloths as hangovers for drunks.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

tags: alcoholic, alcoholism, drunk, drunkard, hangover, hangovers, headaches, lazy, lazy-people, lazyness, sloth, slothfulness

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“The drunkard who is colorblind still sees where is the wine. (L'ivrogne qui est daltonien - Voit quand même où est le vin.)”
― Charles de Leusse

tags: colorblind, daltonien, drunkard, ivrogne, vin, wine

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“Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.”
― Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing

tags: apropos, drunkard, fantasy, medieval, odclay, pessimism, peter-david, sir-apropos-of-nothing, wine-cellar

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“I think a man can keep o drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer... I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth... if I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Bell Tolls for No One

tags: drinking, drunkard, suicide

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“When you drink with a drunkard.
Take when his heart is content.

THE INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO KAGEMNI
Papyrus Prisse, pp. 1-2
Fragment”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

tags: content, drunk, drunkard, heart

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“Some heavy drinkers can’t sober up – they are dazed 24/7. They fall into the fire; it’s ok. They sleep in a stinking gutter; it’s ok. They urinate and vomit on their body; it’s ok. Every disgusting thing is ok to the drunkard.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

tags: dazed, drunkard, gutter, sober, urinate, vomit

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“Ralph's people in Washington were not as bad as he had always thought. The drunkard had found God a week after a Fourth of July and had said good-bye to the bottle for good. Washington was good to the old man's bones.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

tags: alcohol, alcoholism, drinking, drunkard

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“Growing up with an abusive drunkard for a father left scars that never quite healed. Dreams were the preferred method for these kinds of wounds to bleed out and let you know they still existed.”
― Judy Harrington, Frozen Secrets

tags: dreams, drunkard, father, ptsd, trauma

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“The moment the father so much as glimpsed him, he ran to embrace this stealing, slighting, self-absorbed, whoremongering, drunkard. It was this same Father who now held me in the undying steadfastness of His love.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

tags: drunkard, embrace, love, steadfastness, undying

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“In the company of drunks, a non-drunk becomes a leader.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

tags: clear-headed, drunk, drunk-quotes, drunkard, drunkards, drunks, non-drunk, sober, sober-living, soberness

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“In the company of drunks, a non-drinker becomes a leader.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

tags: clear-headed, drunk, drunkard, drunkards, drunkenness, drunks, non-drinker, sober, sober-living, soberness

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“A bottle is a weapon of a drunkard.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

tags: bottle, bottle-of-gin, bottle-of-red, bottle-of-wine, drunkard, drunkard-quotes, drunkards, weapon, weapons, weapons-of-life

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“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
― Thomas Fuller

tags: addiction, alcohol, alcoholism, booze, drunkard, substance-abuse

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