I never wrote so much as a line worth a nickel when I was under the influence of alcohol.
Alcohol Quotes
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.
Drunks like to talk. We talked. We drank. We drank again. (on meeting Ernest Hemingway)
Brandy: n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr, Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.
Alcohol began to compete with my energies – I’d lose focus.
Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
Nectar, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then. (From a 1994 interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio)
Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
