Ben Jonson Quotes

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

The important thing is to be drunk.

If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed.

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young...

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

I think better when I'm not sober

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.