Drunkenness is temporary suicide. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle. – Big Bang Theory, “The Agreement Dissection” (season 4, episode 21, original aird

Woman first tempted man to eat; he took to drinking of his own accord. – Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. K

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. – Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald