If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar. – Lucy Stone
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk. – Jacqueline du Pre
I get drunk writing words. I don’t drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it. – John Shirley
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it. – Lyndon B. Johnson
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who’s drunk come up and tell you you’re great. – Rick Derringer
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. – Samuel Johnson
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk. – Richard Burton
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time. – Richard Widmark
When we started I wasn’t the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. – Robert Smith
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it. – Raymond Chandler
Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor. – Shia LaBeouf
The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year’s Eve. And that was about 28 years ago. – Ronald Biggs
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. – William Butler Yeats
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. – Winston Churchill
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other. – William Tecumseh Sherman
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk. – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that’s something that shouldn’t be dissected. – Stephen Stills
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. – William Wycherley
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine
I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! – Tori Amos