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.

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

Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

Alcohol is a crutch, for people with liquid legs. Our first date went swimmingly, like Michael Phelps mining for gold. 1849 just called me, and it wants its Levi’s jeans back. If you help with...

I was nervous. Like an ice cube, I just froze up. Then I melted in some strange guy’s drink.

Alcoholics never win but always do sin.

A wink and a smirk walk into a bar, and the bartender asked them what they were drinking, when all of the sudden a mustache in a cowboy hat riding a vagina runs through the...

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice a month but it never seems light enough. I drink two and a...

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Some seeksolace inwhiskey,I drown mysorrowsin ink.

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just...

How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?””We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season,” she says taking her seat again. “Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an outdoor cafe for a cup of coffee, and look down...

Like anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don’t know the word. I have always admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don’t like the clean-shaven...

[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state.

Love is to beer as I am to drunk. And you say I’m not romantic. Shoot, I’m so romantic I could just puke.

Does not people’s preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

I’m a competitor. I once placed fifth in a bottle of whiskey.

If I share your bottle of beer, I’ll take the left side.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

the forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions.

Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is the only way you know how to be. Cocaine makes you feel important, that life matters,...

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday’s television. Work and beer. The neighbor’s dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about...

Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

Lowkey punchdrunk off this Sangria-sweet love and all it’s prodigious trappings…

What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in the first place. People who had just seen their neighbors swept away would...

I rarely drink, but last night, after several hours and several beers at the bar, I found myself face to face with two huge boobs. They weren’t the breasts of a young woman, but those...

passing out,” a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment.

She likes her wine white, and that’s how I like my clam chowder. So chuggable!

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness – the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow.

That first drunk, first high, first sexual encounter, those feelings of first are the most intense, the best remembered, always impossible to attain again.

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 set of headphones that ended...

Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.

Cuando no estaba en las escaleras, estaba en los aviones. Fumaba, bebía café y alcohol tratando de no sentir nada. Mi vida se trataba de caminar sin parar, huyendo de mi verdad cada vez que...

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

Death: ‘There are better things in the world than alcohol, Albert. Albert: ‘Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.’

There were, however, a few exceptions.One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not...

Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.