Alcohol
Quotes - Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with
new wisdom is maturity
“This
isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is
serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.”
―
Sam Shepard, True West
“She
had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and
in curl-papers, all day.”
―
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“Mixing
old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is
maturity.”
―
Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“It
is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.”
―
Habeeb Akande
“Vermouth
always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.”
―
E.F. Benson
“I
think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father,
sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was
more important than they are.”
―
Pamela Barrett, Tales of the Titmouse
“I
don't like to overdose. Call me old-fashioned.”
―
Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“[She]
soon perceived that as she walked in the flock, sometimes with this one,
sometimes with that, that the fresh night air was producing staggerings and
serpentine courses among the men who had partaken too freely; some of the more
careless women were also wandering in their gait. . . . Yet however terrestrial
and lumpy their appearance just now to the mean unglamoured eye, to themselves
the case was different. They followed the road with a sensation that they were
soaring along in a supporting medium, possessed of original and profound
thoughts, themselves and surrounding nature forming an organism of which all
the parts harmoniously and joyously interpenetrated each other. They were as
sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent
as they.”
―
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“The
devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I
got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day
he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.”
―
Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness
“Of
the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far
the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I
have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than
the majority of the people who drink.”
―
Guy Debord
“There
were, however, a few exceptions.
One
was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been
sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had
been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena
would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could,
therefore, be regarded as absent.”
―
Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
“I
lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering
the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if
sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar
lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.”
―
Mark Rice, Metallic Dreams
“What
sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a
beer?” ~Mark Cooper”
―
Lisa Henry, Mark Cooper versus America
“Ought
we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning.
"Yes,
I think so."
"I
think so too.”
―
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
“You
are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But
that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.”
―
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
“We
are supposed to consume alcohol and enjoy it, but we're not supposed to become
alcoholics. Imagine if this were the same with cocaine. Imagine we grew up
watching our parents snort lines at dinner, celebrations, sporting events,
brunches, and funerals. We'd sometimes (or often) see our parents coked out of
our minds the way we sometimes (or often) see them drunk. We'd witness them
coming down after a cocaine binge the way we see them recovering from a
hangover. Kiosks at Disneyland would see it so our parents could make it
through a day of fun, our mom's book club would be one big blow-fest and
instead of "mommy juice" it would be called "mommy powder"
There'd be coke-tasting parties in Napa and cocaine cellars in fancy people's
homes, and everyone we know (including our pastors, nurses, teachers, coaches,
bosses) would snort it. The message we'd pick up as kids could be Cocaine is
great, and one day you'll get to try it, too! Just don't become addicted to it
or take it too far. Try it; use it responsibly. Don't become a cocaine-oholic
though. Now, I'm sure you're thinking. That's insane, everyone knows cocaine is
far more addicting than alcohol and far more dangerous. Except, it's not...The
point is not that alcohol is worse than cocaine. The point is that we have a
really clear understanding that cocaine is toxic and addictive. We know there's
no safe amount of it, no such thing as "moderate" cocaine use; we
know it can hook us and rob us of everything we care about...We know we are
better off not tangling with it at all.”
―
Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture
Obsessed with Alcohol
“My
first incident drinking alcohol occurred after a 2-month period in which I
stole wine coolers and beers from my parents and hid them in different places
around my room. I was 14 years old, in eighth grade. I invited a friend over
one night after I had stolen enough. After 2 wine coolers the friend
interrupted me, saying, "Hold on," and vomited into a trash can. I
vomited a lot into the toilet. The next day, like a dumbass, I put the empty
wine cooler and beer bottles in our outside garbage bin without trying to cover
them. My dad caught me as a result, but hid it from my mom for unknown
reasons.”
―
Brandon Scott Gorrell
“Oh
many a peer of England brews
Livelier
liquor than the Muse,
And
malt does more than Milton can
To
justify God’s ways to man.”
―
A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
