#alcohol

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic beverages #beverages #dollar #each #purchased

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic beverages #beverages #canada #consumption #evidence

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#drinks #like #much #someone #who

Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is the only way you know how to be. Cocaine makes you feel important, that life matters, that you matter. That the music is better than it really is. That every conversation is profound and that all pretenses have been stripped away. Ecstasy makes you dance all night and love your friends so much, in a way that you've never been able to tell them about before. Acid makes you see pretty colours and makes things breathe. But Sadness, there is nothing like Sadness. ↗

— pleasefindthis

#drugs #emotion #sadness #life

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies. ↗

— Roman Payne

#champage #idea #ideas #power #roman-payne

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#alcoholic #anything #benefit #father #having

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#around #dinner #go #i #leave

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american-indians #humor #tolstoy #family

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. ↗

— Carl Jung

#alcohol #bad #every #form #idealism

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ancient-greeks #atheism #boredom #brotherhood #cana