"One more drink and I'd be under the host"
Dorothy Parker-You might as well live.
"They speak of my drinking...but never think of my thirst"
Scottish proverb.
"Drink helps us penetrate the veil; it gives us glimpses of the Magi of creation where they seat weaving their spells and sowing their seeds of incarnation to the flowing mind"
Don MarMarquis-The Almost Perfect State.
"He who drinks a little too much, drinks much too much"
A German Proverb.
"Take the drink for the thirst that is yet to come"
Irish Proverb.
"I hope you are not one of those poeple who get drunk on the idea of alcohol (blessed word). It is really very curious that people get more muddled in their heads by thinking about intoxicants than by drinking them"
Frederick Goodyear-Letters And Remains.
"The sway of alcohol over maindkind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystic faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
William James-Quote from the New York Times, circa February 29 1948.