Everyone loved him… and if you loved him, we all knew, you pleaded with him at some point. Or you drove him to A. A., waited outside the church until the meeting was over, and drove him home again. Or you advanced him whatever you could afford so he could travel to Ireland to take […]
Drink - Drinking - Drunk Quotes
In Texas you can mix alcohol and live ammunition and call it a family outing
If a body can just find oot the exac’ proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day and keep to that, I verily throw that he might leeve forever without dying at all, and that doctors and kirkyards would go oot o’ fashion.
I distrust a man who says ‘when.’ If he’s got to be careful not to drink too much, it’s because he’s not to be trusted when he does. (The Maltese Falcon)
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.
Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I […]
Oh, I have been to Ludlow fair And left my necktie God knows where And carried, halfway home or near Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer; Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I’ve lain, Happy till I woke again. Then I saw the […]
