Alcoholic beverages

"Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum."

"No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession."

"Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, And sing enamour'd of the nut-brown maid."

"Nose, nose, jolly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves; And they gave me this jolly red nose."

"Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave you that jolly red nose! Sinamont and ginger, nutmegs and cloves, And that gave me my jolly red nose!"

"Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!"

"Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die."

"BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it."

"What harm in drinking can there be, Since punch and life so well agree?"

"He saw Hawks, grunted, hefted the bottle and said, “I hate the stuff. It tastes lousy, it makes me gag, it stinks, and it burns my mouth. But they keep putting it in your hands, and they keep saying ‘Drink up!’ to each other, and ‘What’s the matter, Charlie, falling a little behind, there? Freshen up that little drinkee for you?” Until you feel like a queer of some kind, and a bore for the times you say you don’t want another one, positively. And they fill their folklore with it, until you wouldn’t dream you were having a good time unless you’d swilled enough of the stuff to poison yourself all the next day. And they talk gentleman talk about it—ages and flavors and brands and blends, as if it wasn’t all ethanol in one concentration or another. Have you ever heard two Martini drinkers in a bar, Hawks? Have you ever heard two shamans swapping magic?”"

"What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!"

"Oh brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!"

"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."

"I taste a liquor never brewed – From Tankards scooped in Pearl – Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol!"

"A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man."

"After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."

"It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety."

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."

"Liquor’s good for one thing. It makes you forget what you’re afraid not to forget."

"Oons, sir ! do you say that I am drunk ? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge."

"Once … in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days."

"I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for."

"The money expended for liquor and tobacco is the difference between a young man making a success in life and making a failure."

"There's alcohol in plant and tree. It must be Nature's plan That there should be in fair degree Some alcohol in Man."

"There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk."

"Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about — you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer..."

"Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when, I've been drinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose, Need me a triple shot of that juice Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer One bourbon, one scotch, one beer."

"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."

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature."

"“Did God set grapes a-growing, do you think, And at the same time make it sin to drink? Give thanks to HIM who foreordained it thus— Surely HE loves to hear the glasses clink!”"

"The last time I seen my father, he was blind in the cedars from drinking. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't suck out of it, it sucks out of him..."

"When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired."

"I'll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody."

"The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol."

"Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey."

"The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind."

"Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker."

"Where there's hooch, there's hope."

"How many alcohol related deaths a year? 100,000? That's, what, 270 a day? Tragedy. How many firearms related deaths a year? 11,000? That comes out to a measly 30 a day!"

"Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil."

"I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking* I could wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment."

"When the wine goes in, strange things come out."

"This bottle's the sun of our table, His beams are rosy wine; We planets that are not able Without his help to shine."

"To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems."

"In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid."

"The horse and mule live thirty years And nothing know of wines and beers; The goat and sheep at twenty die, With never a taste of scotch or rye; The cow drinks water by the ton, And at eighteen is mostly done. Without the aid of rum or gin The dog at fifteen cashes in; The cat in milk and water soaks, And then at twelve years old it croaks; The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for nogs and dies at ten; All animals are strictly dry; They sinless live and swiftly die, While sinful, gleeful, rum-soaked men Survive for three score years and ten. And some of us - a mighty few - Stay pickled 'till we're ninety-two."

"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink."

"Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink."

"If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by, Or any other reason why."