#drinking

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification. ↗

— Charles-Edward A. Winslow

#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution

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

— Louis Pasteur

#bacteria #drinking #health #wine #wine

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#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

Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#alcohol

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. ↗

— Graham Greene

#drinking #liquor #relationships #relief #alcohol

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. ↗

— C.S. Forester

#argument #drinking #gin #mothers #alcohol

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#drinking #alcohol

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#drinking #sleeping #were #weren