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Quotes About Alcohol

It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.
~ Tom Papa
Yet through alcohol's alchemy, I'd swear some nights his shadowy form stands in the yard behind an old push-type lawn mower. Why'd you keep drinking? And Daddy, who was a shrugger, a starer into distances, shrugs and stares. You know…Then he dissolves into the falling snow. I upend the smooth bourbon, trying to achieve the same blunt, anesthetized state that once snuffed him out.
~ Mary Karr
hand. Uncle Patrick and Da went out. "They'll have a word with him," Granny said to the woman. "It's the drink," the woman said. "The devil gets into him." Uncle Patrick and Da came back and the woman left with them. "Made him see sense," Uncle Patrick said to Granny when he and my da returned. "One
~ Mary Pat Kelly
The early anatomists were dealing with a chronic shortage of bodies for dissection, and consequently were motivated to come up with ways to preserve the ones they managed to obtain. Blanchard's textbook was the first to cover arterial embalming. He describes opening up an artery, flushing the blood out with water, and pumping in alcohol. I've been to frat parties like that.
~ Mary Roach
He describes opening up an artery, flushing the blood out with water, and pumping in alcohol. I've been to frat parties like that.
~ Mary Roach
John Wesley drank wine, was something of an ale expert, and often made sure that his Methodist preachers were paid in one of the vital currencies of the day—rum. His brother, Charles Wesley, was known for the fine port, Madeira, and sherry he often served in his home; the journals of George Whitefield are filled with references to his enjoyment of alcohol.
~ Stephen Mansfield
Over generations, the gene pool of the first farmers became increasingly dominated by individuals who could drink beer on a regular basis. Most of the world's population today is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol.
~ Steven Johnson
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
~ H. L. Mencken
If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.
~ Arthur Smith
My girlfriend said: 'If you loved me you wouldn't drink so much', I said: 'If I didn't drink so much I probably wouldn't love you'.
~ Gary Mule Deer
I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.
~ Ed Sheeran
I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.
~ Kenny Chesney
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
~ W. C. Fields
Marijuana isn't bad for everyone any more than alcohol is bad for everyone. Sometimes it even appears to improve people.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
if you really want to get killed, the best thing to do is go drink with a family member
~ Jordan B. Peterson
If you are low status ten (...) Money will make you liable to the dangerous temptations of drugs and alcohol, which are much more rewarding if you have been deprived of pleasure for a long period.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
A morte de Quincas aumentava, onde ia chegando, a consumação de cachaça.
~ Jorge Amado
L'allegria va conservata nello champagne; mentre la cachaça tutt'al più consola dalle disgrazie, quando consola
~ Jorge Amado
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
~ Joseph Conrad
He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.
~ Joseph Mitchell
I mostly needed the liquor to forget those days when the job was a calling rather than a burden
~ Joseph Nassise
but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.
~ Joseph O'Connor
Que Dios nos dé a todos los bebedores una muerte así de hermosa y fácil!»).
~ Joseph Roth