--- title: "Alcohol Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Delve into candid musings on alcohol, mixing humor with cautionary rules and quirky observations about drinking rituals." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## Short alcohol quotes 1. > It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. [Heraclitus](https://quotesby.net/Heraclitus)[Heraclitus quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/Heraclitus/20/ "Permalink to quote 20") 2. > A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. [Jonathan Swift](https://quotesby.net/Jonathan-Swift)[Jonathan Swift quote \#86](https://quotesby.net/Jonathan-Swift/86/ "Permalink to quote 86") 3. > Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. [Ovid](https://quotesby.net/Ovid)[Ovid quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/Ovid/18/ "Permalink to quote 18") 4. > The piano has been drinking, not me. [Tom Waits](https://quotesby.net/Tom-Waits)[Tom Waits quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/Tom-Waits/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 5. > When the wine goes in, strange things come out. [Friedrich von Schiller](https://quotesby.net/Friedrich-von-Schiller)[Friedrich von Schiller quote \#65](https://quotesby.net/Friedrich-von-Schiller/65/ "Permalink to quote 65") 6. > 'I think I think too much. That's why I drink!' [Janis Joplin](https://quotesby.net/Janis-Joplin)[Janis Joplin quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Janis-Joplin/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") 7. > A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar. [Richard Brinsley Sheridan](https://quotesby.net/Richard-Brinsley-Sheridan)[Richard Brinsley Sheridan quote \#23](https://quotesby.net/Richard-Brinsley-Sheridan/23/ "Permalink to quote 23") 8. > A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. [Samuel Johnson](https://quotesby.net/Samuel-Johnson)[Samuel Johnson quote \#174](https://quotesby.net/Samuel-Johnson/174/ "Permalink to quote 174") ## More alcohol quotes 1. > Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. [Dave Barry](https://quotesby.net/Dave-Barry)[Dave Barry quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Dave-Barry/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 2. > A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. [Frank Lloyd Wright](https://quotesby.net/Frank-Lloyd-Wright)[Frank Lloyd Wright quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/Frank-Lloyd-Wright/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 3. > Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. [Samuel Johnson](https://quotesby.net/Samuel-Johnson)[Samuel Johnson quote \#173](https://quotesby.net/Samuel-Johnson/173/ "Permalink to quote 173") 4. > It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required. [Stephen Leacock](https://quotesby.net/Stephen-Leacock)[Stephen Leacock quote \#21](https://quotesby.net/Stephen-Leacock/21/ "Permalink to quote 21") 5. > Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven. [W. C. Fields](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields)[W. C. Fields quote \#18](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields/18/ "Permalink to quote 18") 6. > I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods. [Winston Churchill](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill)[Winston Churchill quote \#30](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill/30/ "Permalink to quote 30") 7. > When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast. [Winston Churchill](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill)[Winston Churchill quote \#197](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill/197/ "Permalink to quote 197") 8. > I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim. [Frida Kahlo](https://quotesby.net/Frida-Kahlo)[Frida Kahlo quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Frida-Kahlo/2/ "Permalink to quote 2") 9. > Sherry...a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day. [George Borrow](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow)[George Borrow quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/George-Borrow/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 10. > Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut)[Kurt Vonnegut quote \#148](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut/148/ "Permalink to quote 148") 11. > My family was a bunch of drunks, when I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch. [Rodney Dangerfield](https://quotesby.net/Rodney-Dangerfield)[Rodney Dangerfield quote \#35](https://quotesby.net/Rodney-Dangerfield/35/ "Permalink to quote 35") 12. > I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. [Thomas Jackson](https://quotesby.net/Thomas-Jackson)[Thomas Jackson quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Thomas-Jackson/16/ "Permalink to quote 16") 13. > Sleep- the most beautiful experience in life- except drink. [W. C. Fields](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields)[W. C. Fields quote \#55](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields/55/ "Permalink to quote 55") 14. > Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit. [John, 2nd Earl of Rochester Wilmot](https://quotesby.net/John,-2nd-Earl-of-Rochester-Wilmot)[John, 2nd Earl of Rochester Wilmot quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/John,-2nd-Earl-of-Rochester-Wilmot/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 15. > Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think. [A. E. Housman](https://quotesby.net/A.-E.-Housman)[A. E. Housman quote \#31](https://quotesby.net/A.-E.-Housman/31/ "Permalink to quote 31") 16. > All I ever did was to sell beer and whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular. Why, the very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me. [Al Capone](https://quotesby.net/Al-Capone)[Al Capone quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Al-Capone/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 17. > For the first twenty years of my life I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it's funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even make it to bed. I'd squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours later, having lost a perfectly good excuse to change my clothes. I'm now told that this is not called 'going to sleep' but rather 'passing out,' a phrase that carries a distinct hint of judgment. [David Sedaris](https://quotesby.net/David-Sedaris)[David Sedaris quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/David-Sedaris/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 18. > One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth. The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fiber of my frame. I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket! [Edgar Allan Poe](https://quotesby.net/Edgar-Allan-Poe)[Edgar Allan Poe quote \#58](https://quotesby.net/Edgar-Allan-Poe/58/ "Permalink to quote 58") 19. > There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege. There isn't a person on this planet by this time who doesn't know that when you consume alcohol you shouldn't get behind the wheel of a car. The people who do it anyway should have their privilege to drive taken away. [Jesse Ventura](https://quotesby.net/Jesse-Ventura)[Jesse Ventura quote \#29](https://quotesby.net/Jesse-Ventura/29/ "Permalink to quote 29") 20. > I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, 'Dude, you have to wait.'\[5\] [Mitch Hedberg](https://quotesby.net/Mitch-Hedberg)[Mitch Hedberg quote \#25](https://quotesby.net/Mitch-Hedberg/25/ "Permalink to quote 25") 21. > Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. [Samuel Johnson](https://quotesby.net/Samuel-Johnson)[Samuel Johnson quote \#170](https://quotesby.net/Samuel-Johnson/170/ "Permalink to quote 170") 22. > Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!' [Tom Robbins](https://quotesby.net/Tom-Robbins)[Tom Robbins quote \#8](https://quotesby.net/Tom-Robbins/8/ "Permalink to quote 8") 23. > I exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. [W. C. Fields](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields)[W. C. Fields quote \#33](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields/33/ "Permalink to quote 33") 24. > More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol. [W. C. Fields](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields)[W. C. Fields quote \#45](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields/45/ "Permalink to quote 45") 25. > The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it. [Winston Churchill](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill)[Winston Churchill quote \#182](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill/182/ "Permalink to quote 182") 26. > The most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that. And you also have to be 45, female and sitting on the stairs. Because gin isn't really a drink, it's more a mascara thinner. 'Nobody likes my shoes! I made... I made fifty... fucking vol-au-vents, and not one of you... not one of you... said 'Thank you.'' And my favourite: 'Everybody, shut up. Shut up! This song is all about me.' [Dylan Moran](https://quotesby.net/Dylan-Moran)[Dylan Moran quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Dylan-Moran/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 27. > Samuel L. Jackson: \[people are drinking his beer\] Good motherfuckin' choice, motherfuckers! Samuel Jackson! Made painstakingly by me, Samuel L. Jackson! It'll get you drunk! You'll be fucking fat girls in no time! You might even fight a nigga or two! MMM MMM, bitch! [Dave Chappelle](https://quotesby.net/Dave-Chappelle)[Dave Chappelle quote \#82](https://quotesby.net/Dave-Chappelle/82/ "Permalink to quote 82") 28. > Beer commercials usually have big men, manly men doing manly things: 'You just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.' Why not a realistic beer commercial like, 'It's five o'clock in the morning. You just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.' [Robin Williams](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams)[Robin Williams quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 29. > How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon- and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter. (From a radio show, a 'temperance lecture'.) [W. C. Fields](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields)[W. C. Fields quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 30. > I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me. [Winston Churchill](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill)[Winston Churchill quote \#139](https://quotesby.net/Winston-Churchill/139/ "Permalink to quote 139") 31. > If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink. But if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a fucking non-alcoholic. Non-alcoholism is a problem too. And there are symptoms, like when you fall down, does it always hurt? - Live at the 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia, April 9, 2002 [Mitch Hedberg](https://quotesby.net/Mitch-Hedberg)[Mitch Hedberg quote \#31](https://quotesby.net/Mitch-Hedberg/31/ "Permalink to quote 31") 32. > Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil! [Robert Burns](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Burns)[Robert Burns quote \#70](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Burns/70/ "Permalink to quote 70") 33. > Kaltenbrunner had great personal weaknesses; above all he drank, which in itself was enough to damn him in the eyes of Heydrich, who of course exploited this weakness in his usual effective way. [Ernst Kaltenbrunner](https://quotesby.net/Ernst-Kaltenbrunner)[Ernst Kaltenbrunner quote \#49](https://quotesby.net/Ernst-Kaltenbrunner/49/ "Permalink to quote 49") 34. > Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account. [Jeremy Taylor](https://quotesby.net/Jeremy-Taylor)[Jeremy Taylor quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Jeremy-Taylor/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 35. > She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut)[Kurt Vonnegut quote \#149](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut/149/ "Permalink to quote 149") 36. > So I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline, and I was drinking Jagermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. 'You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink.' [Margaret Cho](https://quotesby.net/Margaret-Cho)[Margaret Cho quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Margaret-Cho/14/ "Permalink to quote 14") 37. > And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, 'Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?' Actually weighing the pros and the cons. 'Well, it'll be warm for a minute... It's a big bed, I'll just roll over... I'll just blame it on that guy!' [Margaret Cho](https://quotesby.net/Margaret-Cho)[Margaret Cho quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Margaret-Cho/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 38. > John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surprised them all. [Robert Burns](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Burns)[Robert Burns quote \#27](https://quotesby.net/Robert-Burns/27/ "Permalink to quote 27") 39. > And you realize you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself. You realize you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself. You realize you're an alcoholic...oh, dammit, dammit, God DAMMIT. [Robin Williams](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams)[Robin Williams quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 40. > Winston Churchill, the greatest orator of all time, was so fucked up on champagne and cognac, that he may not have done some of his own speeches. They were done by a man from the BBC who did Winnie the Pooh. 'We will fight them on the beaches, in the air, on the land, Eeyore and Tigger!' [Robin Williams](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams)[Robin Williams quote \#27](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams/27/ "Permalink to quote 27") 41. > If alcohol is a crutch, then Jack Daniel's is the wheelchair. [Robin Williams](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams)[Robin Williams quote \#74](https://quotesby.net/Robin-Williams/74/ "Permalink to quote 74") 42. > Do not allow children to mix your martini. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. [Steve Allen](https://quotesby.net/Steve-Allen)[Steve Allen quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Steve-Allen/15/ "Permalink to quote 15") 43. > 'Our Father, who art in Krebari, hallowed be thy glass. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in the lounges. Give us this day our daily splash, and forgive us our hangovers as we forgive those who continue to hangover against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil...and somebody give us all a ride home.' [Tom Waits](https://quotesby.net/Tom-Waits)[Tom Waits quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/Tom-Waits/19/ "Permalink to quote 19") 44. > It was a woman drove me to drink....you know I never did thank her. [W. C. Fields](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields)[W. C. Fields quote \#40](https://quotesby.net/W.-C.-Fields/40/ "Permalink to quote 40") 45. > I love scotch, scotchy scotch scotch, here it goes down, down into my belly. [Will Ferrell](https://quotesby.net/Will-Ferrell)[Will Ferrell quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/Will-Ferrell/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 46. > (Funnels a beer). Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good! [Will Ferrell](https://quotesby.net/Will-Ferrell)[Will Ferrell quote \#79](https://quotesby.net/Will-Ferrell/79/ "Permalink to quote 79") 47. > I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Though I go bare, take ye no care, I nothing am a-cold; I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. [William Stevenson](https://quotesby.net/William-Stevenson)[William Stevenson quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/William-Stevenson/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") 48. > I'm not a drinker - my body will not tolerate spirits. I had two Martinis on New Year's Eve and I tried to hijack an elevator and fly it to Cuba. [Woody Allen](https://quotesby.net/Woody-Allen)[Woody Allen quote \#96](https://quotesby.net/Woody-Allen/96/ "Permalink to quote 96") 49. > So, when my Days of Impotence approach, And I'm by Pox and Wine's unlucky chance Driv'n from the pleasing Billows of debauch On the dull Shore of lazy Temperance; My Pains at least some Respite shall afford While I behold the Battles you maintain When Fleets of Glasses sail about the Board, From whose Broad-sides Volleys of Wit shall rain. [John, 2nd Earl of Rochester Wilmot](https://quotesby.net/John,-2nd-Earl-of-Rochester-Wilmot)[John, 2nd Earl of Rochester Wilmot quote \#10](https://quotesby.net/John,-2nd-Earl-of-Rochester-Wilmot/10/ "Permalink to quote 10") 50. > My manager saw me drinking backstage and he said 'Mitch, don't use liquor as a crutch.' I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely fucks up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see. - Live at the 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia, April 9, 2002 [Mitch Hedberg](https://quotesby.net/Mitch-Hedberg)[Mitch Hedberg quote \#32](https://quotesby.net/Mitch-Hedberg/32/ "Permalink to quote 32") 51. > I have this theory about why men kill each other and break things. ... Never mind. It's a dumb theory. I was going to say it was all sexual ... but everything is sexual ... but alcohol. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut)[Kurt Vonnegut quote \#73](https://quotesby.net/Kurt-Vonnegut/73/ "Permalink to quote 73") 52. > Well, I'll tell you a story but you won't listen It's about a nightmare steeped in tradition It's the story of a coked-up pansy Who spends his nights in flights of fancy Met two fellas over gin and mixers They talked for a while, he soon got the picture Pete Docherty is a souped up Soho mincer And the other was a pikey with a knowledge of scripture [Peter Doherty](https://quotesby.net/Peter-Doherty)[Peter Doherty quote \#68](https://quotesby.net/Peter-Doherty/68/ "Permalink to quote 68") 53. > It is necessary for me to drink and drive. [Phil Hendrie](https://quotesby.net/Phil-Hendrie)[Phil Hendrie quote \#90](https://quotesby.net/Phil-Hendrie/90/ "Permalink to quote 90") 54. > I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. [Dorothy Parker](https://quotesby.net/Dorothy-Parker)[Dorothy Parker quote \#28](https://quotesby.net/Dorothy-Parker/28/ "Permalink to quote 28") 55. > 'Why are we drinking Zima? It's beyond irony. It's not funny or anything. It's just gross. Why not just serve us jugs of Hitler's piss instead?' [Douglas Coupland](https://quotesby.net/Douglas-Coupland)[Douglas Coupland quote \#85](https://quotesby.net/Douglas-Coupland/85/ "Permalink to quote 85") 56. > Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used. [Douglas Coupland](https://quotesby.net/Douglas-Coupland)[Douglas Coupland quote \#94](https://quotesby.net/Douglas-Coupland/94/ "Permalink to quote 94") 57. > As for the brandy, 'nothing extenuate;' and the water, put nought in it malice. [Douglas William Jerrold](https://quotesby.net/Douglas-William-Jerrold)[Douglas William Jerrold quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/Douglas-William-Jerrold/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 58. > Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: 'How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?'\[1\] [Duke of Edinburgh Philip](https://quotesby.net/Duke-of-Edinburgh-Philip)[Duke of Edinburgh Philip quote \#11](https://quotesby.net/Duke-of-Edinburgh-Philip/11/ "Permalink to quote 11") 59. > 'In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol. It was the worst 20 minutes of my life.' [George Best](https://quotesby.net/George-Best)[George Best quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/George-Best/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 60. > 'I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.' [George Best](https://quotesby.net/George-Best)[George Best quote \#9](https://quotesby.net/George-Best/9/ "Permalink to quote 9") 61. > Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. [Graham Greene](https://quotesby.net/Graham-Greene)[Graham Greene quote \#56](https://quotesby.net/Graham-Greene/56/ "Permalink to quote 56") 62. > There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken. [Jack London](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London)[Jack London quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 63. > I was five years old the first time I got drunk. [Jack London](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London)[Jack London quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London/4/ "Permalink to quote 4") 64. > Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body. [Jack London](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London)[Jack London quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London/5/ "Permalink to quote 5") 65. > The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the kick. [Jack London](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London)[Jack London quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Jack-London/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 66. > Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. [James Thurber](https://quotesby.net/James-Thurber)[James Thurber quote \#82](https://quotesby.net/James-Thurber/82/ "Permalink to quote 82") 67. > Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug. [Joel Chandler Harris](https://quotesby.net/Joel-Chandler-Harris)[Joel Chandler Harris quote \#7](https://quotesby.net/Joel-Chandler-Harris/7/ "Permalink to quote 7") 68. > From wine what sudden friendship springs! [John Gay](https://quotesby.net/John-Gay)[John Gay quote \#13](https://quotesby.net/John-Gay/13/ "Permalink to quote 13") 69. > I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain. (2004) [Johnny Depp](https://quotesby.net/Johnny-Depp)[Johnny Depp quote \#58](https://quotesby.net/Johnny-Depp/58/ "Permalink to quote 58") 70. > Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing. (2004) [Johnny Depp](https://quotesby.net/Johnny-Depp)[Johnny Depp quote \#59](https://quotesby.net/Johnny-Depp/59/ "Permalink to quote 59") 71. > The more you drink, the better you're able to cope in Washington. [Lindsey Graham](https://quotesby.net/Lindsey-Graham)[Lindsey Graham quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Lindsey-Graham/3/ "Permalink to quote 3") 72. > I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never piss on a piece of stone at the fucking Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. I mean I know I'm a fucking crazy-ass but still. [Ozzy Osbourne](https://quotesby.net/Ozzy-Osbourne)[Ozzy Osbourne quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Ozzy-Osbourne/6/ "Permalink to quote 6") 73. > When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before. [Ozzy Osbourne](https://quotesby.net/Ozzy-Osbourne)[Ozzy Osbourne quote \#55](https://quotesby.net/Ozzy-Osbourne/55/ "Permalink to quote 55") 74. > It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. [P. G. Wodehouse](https://quotesby.net/P.-G.-Wodehouse)[P. G. Wodehouse quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/P.-G.-Wodehouse/26/ "Permalink to quote 26") 75. > Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://quotesby.net/Robert-A.-Heinlein)[Robert A. Heinlein quote \#64](https://quotesby.net/Robert-A.-Heinlein/64/ "Permalink to quote 64") 76. > Alcoholics build defenses like the Dutch build dikes. I spent the first twelve years or so of my married life assuring myself that I 'just liked to drink.' I also employed the world-famous Hemingway Defense. Although never clearly articulated (it would not be manly to do so), the Hemingway Defense goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. Only sissy-men do that. Therefore I drink. How else can I face the existential horror of it all and continue to work? Besides, come on, I can handle it. A real man always can. 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