For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Drink - Drinking - Drunk Quotes
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.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
He was a wise man who invented beer.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
I don’t drink; I don’t like it – it makes me feel good.
If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
