505 quotes found
“If you abandon your two glasses of wine, it is to show your children, your friends, and your society that your life is not only for yourself. Your life is for your ancestors, future generations, an...”
“Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civi...”
“Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a se...”
“A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking”
“I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn'...”
“In the remote towns of the west there are few of the amenities of civilization; there is no sewerage, there are no hospitals, rarely a doctor; the food is dreary and flavourless from long carrying,...”
“With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.”
“Alcoholism is a Curse”
“you never know u r drunk until u wake up with a dickhead in the morning.”
“It was baking hot in the square when we came out after lunch with our bags and the rod-case to go to Burguete. People were on top of the bus, and others were climbing up a ladder. Bill went up and ...”
“alcohol played the midwife”
“For more than a century-and-a-half, Europeans had been killing North American Indians with firewater Now, in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Canadas pioneer settlers were killing thems...”
“Finally, although Tennents Super Strong lager, White Lightning, and for the rare rich alcoholic Stella Artois are perfectly acceptable drinks, could you please come up with something less damaging?...”
“Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. Id left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.”
“Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.”
“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.”
“There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life i...”
“Alcohol lowered inhibitions. It didn't create impulses that weren't there.”
“The drink you like the best should be the drink you drink the most.”
“Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of publ...”
