David Ogilvy

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.

English Businessman

Henri Matisse

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.

French Artist

George Santayana

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.

Spanish Philosopher

Samuel Butler

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.

British Poet

Otto von Bismarck

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

German Leader

Plato

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

Greek Philosopher

Epictetus

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

Ernest Shackleton

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

Irish Explorer

Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

French Clergyman

Bon Scott

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

Scottish Musician

Describes someone negatively due to excessive drinking; implies disapproval or pity.

Negative Connotation

Use sparingly as it can sound offensive or judgemental; consider the audience's sensitivities.

Avoid Overuse

Primarily used in informal settings; may not be suitable for academic or professional writing.

Informal Context

 as a drunkard and ultimately he was forced to resign from the service in civilian life he continued to fail he failed as a farming failed as a businessman if an he took a job is a last resort in his father's leather

Winston Groom: The...

 in the lowest part of our city, living with derelicts, drunkards and crazy people, the stench of urine all over, on the street, in the alley,

Drunkard