Alcohol Quotes
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Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.
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Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.
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Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
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Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
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I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.
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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
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Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
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Every time I'd go out drinking I was looking for something new. But it was the same every time. I'd wake up in some bed with some person, I had a hangover and a show to do. And the truth is, it was the same every time. But now life is... pretty interesting without the alcohol.
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Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.
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Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.
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I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
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Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
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Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
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I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.
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I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
