Famous quotes containing the word intoxicating:
“A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ...”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I believe that the miseries consequent on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are so great as imperiously to command the attention of all dedicated lives; and that while the abolition of American slavery was numerically first, the abolition of the liquor traffic is not morally second.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)