“Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“A man does not know the full depth of his thoughts till he picks up a pen and writes; Or till he… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Chet took a sip of lime cordial from his martini glass and asked, 'What does it take to be a librarian?' I… — Angela Pepper Copy Share Image
What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Day of Employment: 362 8:11 p.m. * Day: Different. * Shit: Same. * Workload and Course Load: Big, steamy load. * Consider:… — Qwen Salsbury Copy Share Image
“And when wine has soaked Cupid’s drunken wings, he’s stayed, weighed down, a captive of the place. ... Wine rouses courage and… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
“For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
To this end, we should help and support one another and strive for peace and union among ourselves. This is the wine… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for… — Gary Webb Copy Share Image
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I do a lot of drug and alcohol speaking with people to stop addictions. I'm not a Bible-thumper. I don't preach like… — Sam Childers Copy Share Image
The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a… — Clive James Copy Share Image
With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“While the legalization of Cannabis is still new and being regulated for growing, packaging, distribution and sales, the IRS is old and… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I lit a cigarette and began puffing on it as I drank one quick beer after another. I was neither a drinker… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
“The price for a bottle of wine is related to the value of the soil, the quality of the grape, the time… — Miro Popic Copy Share Image
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
“Craig: 'When I used to drink, I binge drank…and I’m kind of like that with Doctor Who. I save up a lot… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money.… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
“Worldwide pharmaceutical opiate production rose steadily but it was the United States...that now consumed 83 percent of the world's oxycodone and fully… — Sam Quinones Copy Share Image
Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“The enduring racial isolation of the ghetto poor has made them uniquely vulnerable in the War on Drugs. What happens to them… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It made economic sense, if you looked at it from the right angle; it was not in the Clan’s interest for the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image