“Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.”
Source: The quality of mercy: an autobiography
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“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.”
“This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.”
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
“Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
“Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.”
Source: The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes
“An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.”
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
Source: Real Frank Zappa Book
“Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.”
“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
Source: Music For Chameleons
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
Source: Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel
Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.”
Source: Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.”
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
“I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.”
“I drink to make other people interesting.”
Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary
Source: Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks,
“Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.”