A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.