#alcohol

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) ↗

#drugs #drunkenness #intoxication-and-sobriety #men

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#america #drugs #society

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink. ↗

— Tom Waits

#drinking #problems

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#alcoholic #alcoholism #alcoholism-addiction-recovery #mad #miserable

I want to meet a woman named Sherry who only drinks brandy, and a woman named Brandy who only drinks sherry. Then I’ll offer each one of them one magical night of sex with me, in the form of two of my clones. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#brandy #clones #drinks #magic #magical

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#bacteria #drinking #health #wine #wine

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance ↗

— William Shakespeare

#drinking #alcohol

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#drinking #whisky #alcohol

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it. ↗