Craig

“William Faulkner is supposed to have said, "Civilization begins with distillation," but I'd push even further -- beyond just distilled spirits to wine, beer, mead, sake ... all of it. Booze is civilization in a glass.”
― Adam Rogers, Proof: The Science of Booze

“Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink,
for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

“This leads to the great theory of human history: that we didn’t start farming because we wanted food—there was loads of that around. We started farming because we wanted booze.”
― Mark Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

“I can't die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver”
― Phil Harris