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Quotes About Alcohol

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
~ H. L. Mencken
The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.
~ Terri Guillemets
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.
~ Theodore Roethke
I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterwards descend to the gross and mortal enjoyments of alcohol, I take it for granted
~ Thomas de Quincey
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
~ T. J. Miller
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
~ Red Buttons
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
~ W. C. Fields
There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.
~ Billy Sunday
I don't think I've ever met a twenty-two-year-old who's never had a drink.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
~ Nick Hornby
There were three things that could fundamentally change a person: time, alcohol, and managing a bureaucracy.
~ Nick Webb
I took a drink, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand, repeating the gesture that was made a hundred times by my father and his father and his father's father, eyes half closed as the sharpness of the alcohol replaced the sharpness of grief.
~ Nicole Krauss
Bu ülkede ÅŸu anda alkol tüketimine kar?? sert ve hatta anayasaya ayk?r? önlemler al?n?yor ve fakat küçük yaÅŸlarda bile özgürce kullan?lan kahve,çay,tütün,sak?z ve diÄŸer uyar?c?lar - ölenlerin say?s?na bakarsak - vücuda çok daha zararl?.
~ Nikola Tesla
I am more worried than I seem. I keep working in order not to have time to be by myself. All of this life of mine strikes me as exceedingly sad, aimless. Creativity is an intoxicating alcohol in this base tavern of the world.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Anytime some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
ÄŒistÄ› pro úplnost, pokud jste zkrátili dobu masturbace pod tÃ…â"¢i minuty, protože se koupete ve vanÄ›, kterou používá celkem ?trnáct lidí, dejte si dalÅ¡ího panáka.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessy happy, weren't they? To Kristy this had always seemed self-evident. Tonight, however, the alcohol made her wonder if envy hadn't blinded her. Perhaps to be flawless was another kind of sadness.
~ Clive Barker
Two big bottles of this and you wake up in the morning with a pile of vomit in your slippers and six hours pregnant.
~ Colin Bateman
What is it about wine, Harry? —What d'ya mean? —What is it that cures us? —Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots.
~ Colum McCann
A bottle of gin sat in the center of the table. More emptiness than gin in the bottle.
~ Colum McCann
Bushmills was a Protestant whiskey. Jameson for Catholics.
~ Colum McCann
the gin kept my heart alive but bemazed my brain
~ Vladimir Nabokov