Quotes About Alcohol

Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.

He frowned. "Jedi aren't without emotion. We're allowed to grieve." "Perhaps," Ventress allowed, "but somehow I don't think most Jedi try to drown the pain with alcohol and slam their fists on the table.

sad drunk was just as bad as a mad one

by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We

In the eighteenth century it was generally believed that people needed to take in a certain amount of "spirits" every day for strength and energy: Washington, in planning one long forced march, ordered extra rations of rum for the troops as a matter of course.

Captain Timothy Meaher, the boat's owner, was drinking with the rest of them, and he focused his cunning gray eyes on Russell. Meaher figured the foreign journalist might not understand the way folks did things here in America, so close to the old frontier. White men had claimed

Cheap booze is a false economy.

I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork.

It has been said that alcohol is a good servant and a bad master. Nice try. The plain fact is that it makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring.

Since it's not really avoidable, I think the question is how to—if you like—turn [hatred] to advantage.... It's a bit like alcohol, if you like. It's a good servant, but it's a bad master.

British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

Oh, do fuck off. You Muslims and your aversion to drink. Fucking slaughter the greater part of the Western fucking world in Allah's name, but someone wants to toast to your health and suddenly it's all piety, prayer, throw out the pork, and let's put draperies around the women.

Megaptera novaeangliae («Grandes alas de Nueva Inglaterra», la había denominado cierto científico, demostrando de este modo que los científicos también beben)

Relájate, no puede comérselo. Ni siquiera tiene dientes. Y, además, no hay ningún Teletubby gimiendo de placer al otro lado. Ay, Dios, voy a necesitar un buen trago de tequila para quitarme esa imagen dé la cabeza.

Ach, leck mich doch. Ihr Mohammedaner mit eurem Widerwillen gegen den Trunk. Da wird der größte Teil der westlichen Scheißwelt in Allahs Namen abgeschlachtet, aber wenn mal jemand auf euer Wohl anstoßen möchte, ist die Rede plötzlich nur noch von Frommsein und Beten und kein Schweinefleisch und hängen wir unsere Frauen mit Gardinen zu.

A pox on all meads!

People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off, surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned. - from the Austin Road Trip story

I bought a liter of Everclear, a quart of Gatorade, and a can of Red Bull, and poured all of it into my CamelBak. I come prepared. We arrive at the lacrosse house, and I begin sucking back the Everclear/Gatorade/Red Bull mixture, which I will hereafter refer to as "Tucker Death Mix." It tasted like ghetto romance. It was awesome.

The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned to resolve states of psychological imbalance by using alcohol or other equally devastating substances.

UnutuÅŸun tekniÄŸi yoktur, hâlâ rastgele, doÄŸal süreçlere baÄŸl?y?z, beyinsel lezyonlar, unutkanl?k ya da ne bileyim, yolculuk, alkol, uykuya kaç??, can?na k?yma gibi doÄŸaçlamalara.

Il n'existe pas de technique de l'oubli, nous en sommes encore aux processus naturels de hasard – lésions cérébrales, amnésie ou l'improvisation manuelle, que sais-je, un voyage, l'alcool, la cure de sommeil, le suicide.

El hecho de que la humanidad haya practicado la guerra durante decenas de miles de años como una solución a los estados de desequilibrio no es más convincente que el hecho de que en el mismo período la humanidad haya decidido resolver los desequilibrios psicológicos recurriendo al alcohol o a otras drogas.

Her fight with alcohol had made for contentious exchanges and, if that were possible, even more contentious silences. Tony, empathetic to the point of self-harming, felt the pain of her abstinence as powerfully as anything he'd ever endured personally.