Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon

you never know u r drunk until u wake up with a dickhead in the morning.

Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn’t mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied...

I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.

Two things a man can’t hide; that he is drunk and that he is in love.

Need ‘nether whiskey. Whiskey chaser. Gotta get two men drunk.’Mr. Cohan placed both hands on the bar. ‘Mr. Walsh,’ he said severely, ‘in Gavagan’s we will serve a man a drink to wet his whistle,...

I decide to order wine, despite the fact that I don’t like it. But just because I don’t enjoy it is no reason for me not to not enjoy it. I’m romantic like that, I...

Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months...

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.

To every party, I bring my own booze. No need to help me carry it, as I walk in with it already in my bloodstream.

It’s nice to watch television but it’s even nicer when you’ve got a drink in your hand,’ Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. ‘Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that...

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Glasses are for people that sips instead of drinks.

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?””What’s the point of that, Miss?” the waiter said.”Tomorrow morning,” Mabel said.

I’ve never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.

We drink to those who love us, we drink to those who don’t. We drink to those who fuck us, and fuck those who don’t!

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

You know, that’s the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

Alcohol makes you do some crazy things, like speak openly of your love, fornicate with strangers, and occasionally commit murder. That’s why I stopped drinking. Been sober now for over three days.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him. He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was...

My alarm went off. My sleep went on. Dreaming about coffee is not the same as drinking down coffee.

He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

Wenn du mit einem Schweden um die Wette saufen willst, solltest du zumindest Finne oder Russe sein.(S. 148)

Ever heard the phrase, ‘candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?'”Great she wanted to get me drunk.”Ah…ever heard of underage!””Where there’s a will there’s a way,” she said, matter-of-factly.”That’s your great plan?

I’m more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

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

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don’t drink in moderation.

Easy mistake to make,” Jem said.

I never drink while I’m working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

I ordered a beer and then I ordered another beer, because why finish one when I can finish two? Having only one is great for love, but bad for beer.

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

I drink screwdrivers because they help me unwind.

Right, what’s there possibly to worry about?” she said. “Just some surgery in the garage with a drunk doctor.”Little miss,” said Doc, pointing a finger at Cass. “I’m drinking. I’m not drunk. There’s a difference.”...

Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Love is alcohol.

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most...

If I only drink beer, nothing stronger, then by the end of the night I can generally recognize myself as a reasonable human being, and more importantly, wake up that way.

Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill....

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she’d never spoken a word.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and polite ridicule; forces which are not always available, and for whose successful operation much time will be...

Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of...