Liquor – Quotes

My aunts lived on

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don’t know what’s wrong about a kid stealing when he’s hungry. Ethel Waters

Always do sober what

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Ernest Hemingway

I can wade Grief — Whole Pools of it — I’m used to that — But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet — And I tip — drunken — Let no Pebble — smile — ‘Twas the New Liquor — That was all! Emily Dickinson

Cocktail party: A

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. Fred Allen

Each of us needs

Each of us needs something – food, liquor, pot, whatever – to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. Frank Langella

There are more old

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. Francois Rabelais

Alcohol is necessary for

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts. Finley Peter Dunne

Understand now, I\’m purely

Understand now, I’m purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have lived hard

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation. F. Scott Fitzgerald

First you take a

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald