• Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk.  That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.  -Ernest Hemingway
  • A hangover is the wrath of grapes.  -Author Unknown
  • The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.  -Author Unknown
  • When the wine goes in, strange things come out.  -Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799
  • If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker.  If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably an alcoholic.  -Author Unknown
  • O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!  -William Shakespeare, Othello
  • First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.  Francis Scott Fitzgerald
  • What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking! -George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed
  • When the wine is in, the wit is out.  –Proverb
  • Drunkenness is temporary suicide.  -Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
  • Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.  -Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.  –Seneca
  • Brandy, a noun.  A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.  -Ambrose Bierce
  • How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that make me want to drink?  -Author Unknown
  • New!  Improved!  Instant asshole… just add alcohol!  -Author Unknown
  • Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.—Oscar Wilde

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Related Reading:

Beyond the Influence: Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism
Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety
The Tao of Sobriety: Helping You to Recover from Alcohol and Drug Addiction
If You Loved Me, You'd Stop! What You Really Need to Know When Your Loved One Drinks Too Much