― Ernest Hemingway
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental
ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't
test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and
love of power.
― P. J. O'Rourke
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the
narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
― Carl Jung
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which
I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I
have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt
to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and
a dread of some strange impending doom.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the
standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you
out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the
feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to
life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then
you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.
― Charles Bukowski
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all
I could do was to get drunk again.
― Charles Bukowski
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's
psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man.
On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the
supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
― Marguerite Duras
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go
sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I
did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use
alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
― Christopher Hitchens
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
First you take a
drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking
people.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY,
and they meet at the bar.
― Drew Carey
Drink because you
are happy, but never because you are miserable.
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out
of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never
drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD,
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like
to Drink and Stay Home.
― Chelsea Handler
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 made it to the 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, Me Talk Pretty One Day
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
― Dee Dee Myers
