Be kind, O Bacchus, take this empty pot offered to thee by Xenophon, the sot, Who, giving this, gives all that he has got.
Alcohol Quotes
Fill all the glasses there, for why, Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?
It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.
Drink, and be mad, then; ’tis your country bids! Gloriously drunk, obey th’ important call!
The man that isn’t jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking.
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.
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 […]
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.
People who don’t drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
