It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.
Alcohol Quotes
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)
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
After a month’s sobriety my faculties became unbearably acute and I found myself unhealthily clairvoyant, having insights into places I’d as soon not journey to. Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced […]
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.
I am full of holy joy and free booze,” said Cobbler. “I feel moved to sing. It is very wrong to resist an impulse to sing.”
It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
