Quotes About Alcohol

It should puzzle us more than it does that one of the greatest foci of human ingenuity and concentrated effort over the past millennia has been the problem of how to get drunk.

Our desire for alcohol is not an evolutionary mistake. There are good reasons for why we get drunk.

we are simply not well adapted, evolutionarily, to be able to consume alcohol safety outside of the traditional context of ritual and social controls.

In the month of December I couldn't get out of bed. I kept waking up at 6 P.M. and it was Christmas or New Year's and I had to start drinking & eating.

Consuming alcohol in public is allowed in France, which means drinkers overflow onto the sidewalk, especially on the Montmartre stretch. But it rarely gets out of control.

The people who invented nonalcoholic beer are working on liver without vitamins.

terwijl de mannen mooi rijpen en ouder beginnen te worden en zich te goed doen aan de alcohol - die moet hen sterk en kankerloos houden -, duurt de doodstrijd van hun vrouwen vaak jaren en jaren, vaak ook nog zo lang dat ze de doodsstrijd van hun dochters kunnen meemaken. de vrouwen beginnen hun dochters te haten en willen hen zo gauw mogelijk ook laten sterven als zij zelf eens zijn gestorven, daarom: man gezocht.

and he said, i have to stay at home and help momma and attend to him, when he comes from work and fetch the beer from the innkeeper, that takes eight minutes there and back, and if it takes longer, then i'll break your back. and why should you, my daughter, be better off than me?

Of course, you couldn't have a party without alcohol; I understood this now. I understood the reason. The reason was that people were intolerable.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

Ah, ma lei mi ha fatto bere troppo, Monsieur, però in quanto a bicchieri è una buona compagnia. Sa, a volte, quando si è bevuto un po', la realtà si semplifica, si saltano i vuoti fra le cose, tutto sembra combaciare e uno dice: ci sono. Come nei sogni. Ma a lei perché interessano le storie altrui? Anche lei deve essere incapace a riempire i vuoti fra le cose. Non le sono sufficienti i suoi propri sogni?

A wine withdraws not worries but wisdom from the mind of the drunkard person.

I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.

I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.

Drinking made me a lot more free sexually; the restrictions were off. I was a compulsive, compliant 'good girl' by day and a 'bad girl' at night.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Alcoholic drinks do not agree with me. A single glass of wine or beer a day is amply sufficient to turn life into a valley of tears for me.

But this nation has deliberately made itself stupid, for practically a thousand years: nowhere else are the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, so viciously abused.

The brandy was all drunk.

Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only drunks and menstruating women can manage.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.