drunkenness

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkennessöor so good as drink.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

—James,William

Drunkenness is a joy reserved for the Gods: so do men partake of it impiously, and so are they very properly punished for their audacity.

—Cabell,James Branch

A labouring manthat isgivento drunkennessshall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

Il est l'heure de s'enivrer! Pour n'e"  tre pas les esclaves martyrise¤  s duTemps, enivrez-vous sans cesse! De vin, de poe¤  sie ou de vertu, a'   votre guise. This is the time for drunkenness! Be not the martyred slaves of Time, drink without stopping! Drink wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please.

—Baudelaire, Charles