Alcohol Quotes

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck.

In its full flower this is a five-handed game… The central role is that of the Alcoholic… The chief supporting role is that of Persecutor… The third role is that of Rescuer… The fourth role is that of the Patsy, or Dummy… The ancil- lary professional in all drinking games is the bartender or liquor […]

First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother. (on Jack Kerouac)

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don’t know where the bathroom is.

Something has been said for sobriety but very little.

One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An’ taking home a ‘load’ with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an’ lay down by my side; Then we sang ‘It’s all fair weather when good fellows get together,’ Till a […]

I never wrote so much as a line worth a nickel when I was under the influence of alcohol.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

Drunks like to talk. We talked. We drank. We drank again. (on meeting Ernest Hemingway)