Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a ‘vital principle’ than the splitting up...

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven’t touched a drop of...

Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or...

God gave man feet for which to walk. And crush grapes. Can I get you a glass of wine? It’s homemade, though it kind of smells funky.

If you drink, you risk divulging your secrets. Here, have another glass.

Tenente colonnello Abbati: – Io mi difendo bevendo. Altrimenti, sarei già al manicomio. Contro le scelleratezze del mondo, un uomo onesto si difende bevendo. È da oltre un anno che io faccio la guerra, un...

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

It’s meant I will act like less of an asshole, but feel much more like one.

I didn’t bring you here because I was drunk, T. Yes, I was a bit out of it, but I was mostly intoxicated by the sight of you. No alcohol could do to me what...

It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn’t a French...

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. “If I knew what I know now life would be different”….

I’m allergic to alcohol and narcotics, I break out in handcuffs”-Robert Downey Jr.

… drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

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.

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.

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.

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,...

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...

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