drinkers

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee water milk soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing I will make mine whisky.

He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease her husband leaves her in nine out often cases when a man contracts it his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made and if it is then approved they act on it if not they set it aside. Sometimes however they are sober at their first deliberations but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

I drink to make other people interesting.