November 12 2006
“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”
Winston Churchill
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one”
Albert Einstein
“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.”
George F. Burns
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism”
Norman Brenner
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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.”
Raymond Chandler
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness”
Seneca
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water”
Galileo
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Wine is bottled poetry”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“When the wine goes in, strange things come out”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
“Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living”
Jean Kerr
“Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost”
Samuel Johnson
“In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minute of my life”
George Best