Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it’s hard to stop drinking beer.
—Billy Carter

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
—Mercedes McCambridge

When a woman drinks it’s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It’s a slur on the divine in our nature.
—Marguerite Duras

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
—William S. Burroughs

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
—Oliver Reed

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
—William James

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
—Walter Scott

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who’s drunk come up and tell you you’re great.
—Rick Derringer

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
—Barry Goldwater

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
—John Huston