Bricks Quote by Tennessee Williams

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

— Anonymous

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

— Tennessee Williams

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Liquor can be the dogmaless version of flagellation in this way. It can be self-punitive and self-restorative. Liquor is how a man reminds himself…

— A.J. Smith

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some…

— Edmund Burke

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

— Denis Leary

“Beer is man's drink. Water is God's drink. Wine is everyone's drink. Whiskey is the Devil's soup.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were…

— Gene Wolfe

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best…

— Anonymous

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand…

— Ludwig von Mises

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

— Nick Flynn

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

— Mignon McLaughlin