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)
Alcohol Quotes
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.
And Noah, he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, ‘I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine’.
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
A man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damnfool if he doesn’t.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
