Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
Alcohol Quotes
(Holding his dram and staring it in the eye) Ye killed me mither; Ye killed me father; Ah, sweet revenge!!
I never drink water, that’s the stuff that rusts pipes.
Wine, which cheereth God and man. (Judges 9:13)
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy. To deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
The man that isn’t jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking.
Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girl’s clothes off. (The Long Goodbye, 1953)
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
After a month’s sobriety my faculties became unbearably acute and I found myself unhealthily clairvoyant, having insights into places I’d as soon not journey to. Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced […]
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.
