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What I envisioned to see was a group of guys drinking beer.
Sep 18, 2025
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.
And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
Good people drink good beer.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
I drink to make other people interesting.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.
Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!
Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.