alcohol Quotes

If you think what I am about to tell you next is a contradiction to this, then you will have to realize that in Montana drinking beer does not count as drinking.

“And like everyone else, Louie and Phil drank. After a few beers, Louie said, it was possible to briefly forget dead friends.”

“I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly. ”

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

″‘Come,’ I said, with decision, ‘we will go back; your health is precious.‘”

“A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite.”

“Besides fueling great ideas, tequila also dissolves the filter between my brain and my mouth.”

“Tequila makes me dream up things like dance battles.”

“Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one.”

“The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.”

“So much for sin. On the side of salvation they had ninety-some saloons, just shy of one for every hundred citizens, although municipal goodyism had moved the gambling rooms out back or upstairs.”

“A traveler cannot bring a better burden on the road than plenty of wisdom, and he can bring no worse a burden than too much alcohol.”

“It is disquieting to learn that vehicular accidents caused by drowsy driving exceed those caused by alcohol and drugs combined.”

He cursed everything. He had done for himself in the office, pawned his watch, spent all his money; and he had not even got drunk. He began to feel thirsty again and he longed to be back again in the hot reeking public-house.

Only she hoped that Joe wouldn’t come in drunk. He was so different when he took any drink.

Here’s an envious fellow making himself boozy on wine when he ought to be nursing his wrath, and here is a fool who sees the woman he loves stolen from under his nose and takes on like a big baby.

“I had a bottle of something—I don’t know what it was—something that burned—”

“I don’t know why it should be a crack thing to be a brewer; but it is indisputable that while you cannot possibly be genteel and bake, you may be as genteel as never was and brew. You see it every day.”

“I had hard work at it for several weeks; you see I never did get drunk, but I found that I was not my own master, and that when the craving came on it was hard work to say ‘no’.

″...sometimes I had to say over and over to myself, ‘Give up the drink or lose your soul! Give up the drink or break Polly’s heart!‘”