Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses.

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

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.

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

To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life’s problems

I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

Do you drink?””Of course,I just said I was a writer.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision,and sets things in true perspective.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

I’d often slip and fall on the ice after last call, which explained the ever-present welts. If I were with a woman, I’d usually execute a precautionary vomit in the men’s room in an effort...

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

I dance so fluid that I often drink the floor.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.

The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.

Men hvad bruker hun al den sherryen til?De har visst svært ofte skjelpadesuppe der i huset. Ja men en flaske om dag!

Was I on a hangover?

If I show up on your doorstep don’t worry I’m just there to party.

I can’t die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver

Don’t drink too much.””When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I’ll stop.””I’ll have to get a shorter name.””I’ll have to forget how to spell it.

… drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

One of the things that strikes me most though is how some people don’t realise they’re self-harming. The phrase ‘self-harm’ brings up thoughts of ‘cutting’, but that’s only a small portion of it. When you...

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against...

One more drink and I’d have been under the host.

I don’t like ice in my whiskey. I like bullets. Why? Because for every ice cube I don’t use, an Eskimo gets to keep one square inch of his igloo. So I’m saving twice the...

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

I like grape juice. Fermented grape juice—wine. It’s the drink of choice for champions. I know because I asked a bunch of winners.

Love is something to be treated with awe. Or should it be aww? People don’t know my capacity for love. If you tried to bottle it up, I’m sure it would take at least three...

I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.

A can’t in a can—it’s carbonated failure that’s ready to drink. It tastes like the back half of love.

It’s solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

You speak of my drinking, yet you don’t know my thirst

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

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

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.Proverbs 31:7

…it was not considered right for a man not to drink, although drink was a dangerous thing. On the contrary, not to drink would have been thought a mark of cowardice and of incapacity for...

I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be...

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,Sermons and soda water the day after.Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;The best of life is but intoxication:Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunkThe hopes...

Alcohol helps you to loosen up to make memories you won’t forget, and then it helps you to forget them completely.

I only had one drink. The problem was, my vodka glass could hold one gallon. I thought I was in love, but I was really intoxicated.

I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and life’s never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people...

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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

One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness — they’re heartbreaking.[…] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness...

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.