Teetotalers seem to die the same as others, So what’s the use of knocking off the beer?
Drink - Drinking - Drunk Quotes
Drunkenness is not a mere matter of intoxicating liquors; it goes deeper, far deeper. Drunkenness is the failure of a man to control his thoughts.
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.
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.
