Drunkenness

The real case against drunkenness is not that it calls up the beast, but that it calls up the Devil. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was no drunkenness, as drunkenness is ordinarily understood -- no staggering and rolling around, no befuddlement of the senses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Children are begotten in drunkenness, saturated in drink before they draw their first breath, born to the smell and taste of it, and brought up in the midst of it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dismal and destructive ecstasy of drugs, of hammering rhythms, noise, and drunkenness is confronted with a bright ecstasy of light, of joyful encounter in ❋ Unknown (2009)

I took him through the slums of San Francisco, and in drunkenness, prostitution, and criminality he learned a deeper cause than innate depravity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though drawing the story in bold strokes and relying on stock characters, Austen's treatment of drunkenness nevertheless remains subtle insofar as she, like medical writers, refuses the interpretation that drunkenness is merely a mark of license. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now, drunkenness is not the great vice, as far as I can learn. ❋ Unknown (1918)

This was a sin very frequent among the heathens; and particularly on occasion of the festivals of their gods, and more especially in their Bacchanalia: then they were wont to inflame themselves with wine, and all manner of inordinate lusts were consequent upon it: and therefore the apostle adds, wherein, or in which drunkenness, is excess. ❋ Unknown (1721)

'The arrival of such a man as Mr Newill did not much contribute to the prosperity of his wife's business – Those who, from their former knowledge of her, were willing to promote her welfare, grew cold when they found their bounty served only to support her husband in drunkenness, and her distress became very great, of which I was a sharer; but I endeavoured to do all I could to continue her business, which was now almost entirely neglected. ❋ Unknown (1793)

"Lord, I was no spendthrift of my estate, no prodigal of my time, no profaner of my sabbaths, no opposer of good ministers and good preaching; Lord, I never ridiculed my bible, nor set my wits to work to banter religion, nor abused my power to persecute any good man; I never drowned my parts, nor wasted God's good creatures in drunkenness and gluttony, nor ever to my knowledge did I injury to any body." ❋ Unknown (1721)

52 Stories about GIs and "geishas" soon followed. 53 At around the same time, journalists began reporting from Europe that American soldiers had earned a bad reputation as a result of "a general increase in ... drunkenness, petty robbery, assaults, and destruction of civilian property," not only in Germany but also in former allied nations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

a prejudice the sin of drunkenness is to a man, to a king. ❋ Unknown (1721)

For all the dangers and delusive euphoria there is a truth in drunkenness and to this day I find it hard to trust a man who doesn’t drink. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Man, my drunkenness is [starting] to get the better of me; I want [to pork] [your sister]. ❋ Bantaclause (2015)

he was [pretty] [drunk], you were [way] more drunk, but he is way drunkener than you! ❋ Katelyn<3 (2006)

I woke up outside my own house cuddling a [wheelie bin], covered in glitter, wearing [budgie smugglers] over jeans and holding the reins to a [miniature horse]. Man, I was so drunken last night. ❋ Genoir (2010)

[hey bitch], drink [that shit] and [come over] here. ❋ Eric Phillips (2004)

Person 1 opens bottle of Tequila Person 2 alright! lets begin [Drunkening]. Person 1 we havent had a drink in a while. Person 2 [yeah it is] [about time] we had another Drunkening. Person 1 Are you drunk yet? Person 2 Yeah bit i still have a fair bit of Drunkening to go. ❋ Ausrider (2007)

[My girlfriend] got [drunken drunken] last night. Dude is she [ok]? ❋ Drunkendrunkenmaniac (2010)

Now that I've had [a few] [shots] I [totally] drunkenize you. ❋ Peter Clary (2007)

Mark [Piper] the [grumpy] drunken [tired] fool. ❋ Daz Barkwill (2006)

Dude, I got slightly [drunkenated] on [whisky] and coffee, and I [cleaned] my entire house in under 10 minutes. ❋ Tehdrunkenator (2011)

dude - i am goin drunken with [gore] tonight, and we plan on [tearing] this town a new one. wow, going drunken last night was a [bad idea] - i woke up next to a donkey. um, next time i say lets go drunken tell me no...we stole a midget last night ❋ Bubbap (2011)