To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.
Caroline KnappTags: drinking alcohol alcoholism
Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of the Christopher Beeston who had acted with Shakespeare's company. The partly cancelled note reads: 'the more to be admired, he was not a company keeper. [He] ... wouldn't be debauched, and if invited to, writ [i.e. wrote] he was in pain.' [Ch.24]
Ian WilsonTags: drinking temperance
Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink,
for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Tags: drinking
I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy
Dean MartinTags: drinking spoonerism
They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
Ellis PetersTags: solitude courage thought reflection drinking confession beer alcohol withdrawal quietness taverns
The drink you like the best should be the drink you drink the most.
Rain CorbynI like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
Darynda JonesTags: humor optimism drinking alcohol
Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him.’
‘Why did she do that?’
Well, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that’s not really the point of the story.
A fine young man and a fine young felly he always was, except that in the old days, before you began coming in here, Mr. Witherwax, he maybe had too much money and spent too much of it on girls. Take them alone, either one; the money without the women, or a good girl without the money that can be a help to a young felly, and he's fixed for life. But put them together; and often as not, the young felly goes on the booze. ("The Better Mousetrap")
Fletcher PrattTags: money men women marriage drinking booze alochol
Need 'nother whiskey. Whiskey chaser. Gotta get two men drunk."
Mr. Cohan placed both hands on the bar. "Mr. Walsh," he said severely, "in Gavagan's we will serve a man a drink to wet his whistle, or even because his old woman has pasted him with a dornick, but a drink to get drunk with I do not sell. Now I'm telling you you've had enough for tonight, and in the morning you'll be thanking me..." ("My Brother's Keeper")
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