Quote by Aeschylus

“Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals.”

— Jonathan Kieran

“About the same time one Purderve was put to death, for saying privately to a priest, after he had drunk the wine, "He blessed…

— John Foxe

“...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love…

— Georges Rodenbach

“Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may…

— Kamand Kojouri

“He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors—but then no one’s perfect. In”

— David McCullough

“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes…

— Seneca

“Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor.…

— Eliot Pattison

“Then it hits me. I’m actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings…

— Mary Karr

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the…

— Bible

“Liquor is a good servant but a fucking cruel master. You keep going the way you were, and you’ll be more than fucked.”

— Tillie Cole

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but…

— Walter Raleigh

Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it…

— Octavius Winslow