Alcohol
Quotes - Alcohol ruined me financially and morally
“Frankly,
I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep,
and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the
world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the
throat.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“...and
you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a
cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”
―
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
“Alcohol
makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what
the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or
writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of
water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of
Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at
Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are
asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of
sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take
wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that
Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his
time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and
sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens
made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes
for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and
bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm
the human.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Only
Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.”
―
Alex Levine
“Fill
with mingled cream and amber,
I
will drain that glass again.
Such
hilarious visions clamber
Through
the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest
thoughts — queerest fancies
Come
to life and fade away;
What
care I how time advances?
I am
drinking ale today.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“To
alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems”
―
Matt Groening
“I
think I need a drink.'
'Almost
everybody does only they don't know it.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Women
“I
like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.”
―
Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right
“[I]t
is the wine that leads me on,
the
wild wine
that
sets the wisest man to sing
at
the top of his lungs,
laugh
like a fool – it drives the
man
to dancing... it even
tempts
him to blurt out stories
better
never told.”
―
Homer, The Odyssey
“Alcohol,
taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
―
Oscar Wilde
“Wine
is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.”
―
Louis Pasteur
“it
provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
―
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Like
anybody can tell you, I am not a very nice man. I don't know the word. I have always
admired the villain, the outlaw, the son of a bitch. I don't like the
clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men
with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are
full of surprises and explosions. I also like vile women, drunk cursing bitches
with loose stockings and
sloppy
mascara faces. I'm more interested in perverts than saints. I can relax with
bums
because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like
to be
shaped
by society.”
―
Charles Bukowski, South of No North
“They're
professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager
shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker
you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink
you under the table.”
―
Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
“An
over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
―
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
“Alcohol
ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many
others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't
touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away
with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a
mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
―
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely
Patriot
