Drunkards – Quotes

If I had not

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

What kind of crops

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! Ernest Poole

He is a drunkard

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

Drunkards of summer are

Drunkards of summer are quite as frequent as Drunkards of wine. Emily Dickinson

We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out … Read more

In the most rigorous

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. Edward Gibbon

Then Christ will say

Then Christ will say to us, ‘Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!’ And he will say to us, ‘Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!’ And the wise and prudent will say, ‘Lord, why are … Read more