Definition of Drunkard

Drunkard

One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

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Drunkard Quotations

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
Epictetus

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Henri Matisse

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
David Ogilvy

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.
Bon Scott

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
John Dos Passos

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
George Savile

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.
William Graham Sumner

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
Arthur Keith

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
Ernest Shackleton

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.
Jonathan Frid

The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
Bruce Perens

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Drunkard Translations

drunkard in Italian is ubriacone
drunkard in Norwegian is drukkenbolt
drunkard in Swedish is drinkare

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