Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.