Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine. Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly! In the […]
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At the small tables which were arranged about the room some thirty customers were drinking English beer, porter, gin and brandy; smoking, the while, long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium mingled with essence of rose… They ordered two bottles of port, to which the Frenchman did ample justice, whilst Fix observed […]
The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk they’re sober.
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. (John 4:13-14)
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
Though in silence, with blighted affection, I pine, Yet the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.