The weakness of my flesh has prevented me from enjoying that communion with the human race that is engendered by alcohol; long before I could reach the state of intoxication that enables so many, more happily constituted, to look upon all men as their brothers, my stomach has turned upon me and I have been […]
Alcohol Quotes
When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
Cider, I will not sip, It shall not pass my lip, Because it has made drunkards by the score. The Apples I will eat, But cider, hard or sweet, I will not touch, or taste, or handle more. (“A Child’s Vow”)
Drinking your liquor well has always been to us (West Indians) a part of manhood and being a gentleman. I used to drink scotch. I have a new predilection for martinis. It’s more sophisticated, more belligerently radical.
And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me, His voice was filled with evangelical glee, Sipping down his gin and tonics, While preaching about the evils of narcotics, And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin, While he mentally fondles his next of kin.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution, or of a bad memory!
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had nothing to live on but food and water.
