The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair.
Alcohol Quotes
A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine, except that on a day without sunshine you can still get drunk.
Wouldn’t it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
Fill all the glasses there, for why, Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?
Be kind, O Bacchus, take this empty pot offered to thee by Xenophon, the sot, Who, giving this, gives all that he has got.
Drink, and be mad, then; ’tis your country bids! Gloriously drunk, obey th’ important call!
It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy. To deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
The man that isn’t jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking.
Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girl’s clothes off. (The Long Goodbye, 1953)
