Alcohol is a very necessary article… it enables Parliament to do things at eleven that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
Drink - Drinking - Drunk Quotes
Not only did Ed love liquor. He went further. He had a deep suspicion of anyone who did not. If a nondrinker shut up and minded his own business and did not make an issue of his failing, Ed could be kind to him. But alas, a laissez-faire attitude is very uncommon in teetotalers. The […]
He’ll probably never write a good play again. (on hearing that Eugene O’Neill had sworn off drinking)
We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren’t drinkin’ aren’t hittin’.
When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk and go to heaven!
A little learning is a dangerous thing: Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking, and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
