alcohol

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

People use alcohol for just fun. This fun then makes them use gun. Finally, it ends up with sin.

You need to relax. Maybe we should stop at a bar for alcohol first.""For me or for them?""For them, of course. It's important to get them loaded early in the day. Makes them easier to control.

There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where_ anywhere.

All political movements are basically anti-creative _ since a political movement is a form of war. __here__ no place for impractical dreamers around here,_ that__ what they always say. __our writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around._ __s for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers._ Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of public-houses - which in this respect resemble railway stations and mad-houses.

Alcohol is none other than a call from the hall (of alcoholics). That hall is none other than the hell.

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times__ was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

I had never been a dresser. My shirts were all faded and shrunken, 5 or 6 years old, threadbare. My pants the same. I hated department stores, I hated the clerks, they acted so superior, they seemed to know the secret of life, they had a confidence I didn't possess. My shoes were always broken down and old, I disliked shoe stores too. I never purchased anything until it was completely unusable, and that included automobiles. It wasn't a matter of thrift, I just couldn't bear to be a buyer needing a seller, seller being so handsome and aloof and superior. Besides, it all took time, time when you could just be laying around and drinking.

When you drink alcohol you are just borrowing happiness from tomorrow.

How many of you were born in Oklahoma? Yeah, never raise your hand to a question like that again. We__e the mecca of beer-drinkin_ rednecks.

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

Alcohol is not only a homely drink because also it drinks the whole family.

You always miss 100% of the shots you don't order

Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.

I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.("New York Blues")

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.

Drummond appreciated his guest's initial silence, his respect for the ancient, sacred act of imbibing. Drink first, talk later.