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Topic·Alcohol✕clear

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

1939

★ 1.7

Your true amateur sips his wine; as he lingers over each separate mouthful, he obtains from each the sum total of pleasure that he would have experienced had he emptied his glass at a single draught.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

1825

★ 1.8

Play · History (play)

I will make it felony to drink small beer.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2 · 1594

★ 1.9

Novel · Science fiction

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

1959

★ 1.9

When things are very very bad, a drink is the only magic cheap thing left to give you the dream, to make you feel good for a moment.

Charles Bukowski

1981

★ 1.9

Film · Road movie · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing, how the sun was shining, if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes, and if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now.

Sideways · 2004

★ 1.9

Standup comedy · Comedy

Really the only time to ever drink a shot is never. No one's ever drank a shot and then done something they're proud of.

Obsessed · 2014

★ 1.9

Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

A man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

William Faulkner

1962

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

480 BC

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.

Psalm 104:15

450 BC

★ 2.0

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Epistles · 20 BC

★ 2.0

Film · Crime thriller (film) · Thriller (film) · Crime thriller · Thriller

Beer leads to more beer.

No Country for Old Men · 2007

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Proverbs 31:6

686 BC

★ 2.1

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes.

Macaulay Connor

The Philadelphia Story · 1940

★ 2.1

A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Proverbs 20:1

686 BC

★ 2.9

If all be true that I think, There are five reasons we should drink; Good wine-a friend-or being dry- Or lest we should be by and by- Or any other reason why.

1689

★ 3.5

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely screws up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see.

Comedy Central Presents · 1999

★ 3.5

Standup comedy · Comedy

It's amazing how our attitude on alcohol changes, right? Cause even as a teenager you know it's wrong. You're like, "You know, I don't like the taste of it, but I want to look cool." And then in your twenties you're like, "You know what, this kinda gives me confidence to talk to the opposite sex." Then in your forties you're like, "You know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive."

Obsessed · 2014

★ 3.5

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