Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

People spend half of their free time drinking alcohol and the other half watching totally sober people on television. And they want to be those people, live those lives. Ever wondered why we rarely see...

The thing about alcohol, though non-drinkers, non-alcoholics and reformed alcoholics may falsely dispute this, is that each day, or night on booze, is a different journey, the destination being a mystery, but quite possibly the...

Day zero, the disaster, the serious shock, the near self-destruction.Day two, the suffering, the repentance, the depression, and the promises.Day three, the recovery, the wall, some light, and the joy.Day four, the strength, the resolution,...

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.”A Change Is Gonna Come

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning… No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire...

too much alcohol hampers people’s ability to parent. That’s why I’ve chosen to remain childless.

Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.

Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There...

That’s what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

A drink centers me but I usually make myself wait until at least 9:00 PM for that. Or 8:00 PM. Whichever comes first.

My first incident drinking alcohol occurred after a 2-month period in which I stole wine coolers and beers from my parents and hid them in different places around my room. I was 14 years old,...

There was a tacit understanding between them that ‘liquor helped’; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

I just invented a device that eliminates vice. It looks like a bottle of booze, only it’s empty, because I just drank it.

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing… it eventempts him to blurt...

Alcohol initially makes man strong after a brief time, then makes a man ‘weak’ after a ‘week,’ after a ‘month’ – it affects his ‘health’ and after a ‘year,’ his life ends with ‘tear.

For me to enjoy a salad, I need the right dressing. Vodka is salad dressing, right?

I had a dream where I drank my own grandma. What she was doing disguised as a bottle of booze isn’t entirely clear to me.

Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Any connoisseur knows you’ve got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us. Surely, God who let...

Aw, c’mon. She purred, her breath warm in my ear.”You know you wanna…”God, she was slurring. She smelled like beer.I’d never been to turned on in my life.This has gotta be some kinda rape.I thought...

A late arrival had the impression of lots of loud people unnecessarily grouped within a smoke-blue space between two mirrors gorged with reflections. Because, I suppose, Cynthia wished to be the youngest in the room,...

If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!

I don’t like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it’s important I take mushrooms and acid. They’re certainly not addictive, so I can’t rule that out.

Alcoholism is a Curse

I plead the fifth—and then I drank it. I was drunk on love, but wouldn’t admit it. I was also drunk on whiskey, but the breathalyzer outed me.

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...

These guys had names for every conceivable drinking situation. They liked to have a little eye-opener to get themselves going in the morning, a midmorning bracer before attempting anything serious, a few modest cocktails at...

I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.

You always miss 100% of the shots you don’t order

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

There is overwhelming evidence that certain mental disorders occur with much higher frequency among homosexuals.” For example, 40% of homosexual men have a history of major depression. That compares with only 3% for men in...

…Finally, although Tennent’s 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? I think lighter fuel is better...

Wealth without wisdom is equal to life without purpose

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

I think coffee is the best drink known to man. I also think that wine is the best drink known to woman.

Wszystko zgodnie z sugestiami mojej mamy. W następnym tygodniu zaczynam zapisywać rozmaite szczegóły. […] Najlepsi ludzie piją whiskey, mówi.

I drink wine like beer, only twice as much less.

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again.Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain —Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away;What care I how...

Forget plastic surgery. Enhance your beauty by getting those around you drunk.

Perhaps that was just a hunch.”Barbee shivered again. He knew that he himself possessed what he called the “nose for news” – an intuitive perception of human motivations and the impending events that would spring...

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested – ask any doctor – that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He’s this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern in New York and then died on the spot...