Drink - Drinking - Drunk Quotes

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards. (The Tempest)

We need a new cosmology. New Gods. New Sacraments. Another drink.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

Almost to a man these dead geniuses spoke of themselves as heavy drinkers, as did I. Masterful, self-controlled, heavy drinkers. Not drunks, my God, no. At worst, and to make one’s self-image truly and formally clear, the term might be ‘functional alcoholic.’ But even that terrible label has a soulful thrust to it, as if […]

Here’s to girls and gunpowder!

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

Well, Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.