You may compute the period when happiness is in season, which in my judgment, enters the room with the tea-tray. For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the […]
Alcohol Quotes
I’ll be sober tomorrow, but you’ll be crazy for the rest of your life. (in reply to an accusation of drunkenness)
I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. (Said during a lunch with the Arab leader Ibn Saud, when he heard that the king’s religion […]
Then trust me there’s nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e’en the valiant more brave.
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for.
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Bacchus’ blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure.
A woman drove me to drink, and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.
He didn’t add that he’d been given to understand that Baptists didn’t drink alcoholic beverages. Odd, considering that Jesus’ first public miracle had been to change water into wine at the marriage feast at Cana. But Christianity had many faces. In any case, the mao-tai was vile, worse than the cheapest grappa. With advancing years, […]
The horse and mule live thirty years, And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die, Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton, and at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in, Without the aid of rum or gin. The […]
