A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and be merry. Ecclesiastes 8:15
Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. Ezekiel 23:32-35
But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom. Matthew 26:29
Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. Mark 14:25
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. I Corinthians 15:32
Yeah, I drink. So what. Deal with it. I’m a drinker, it’s what I do. It beats my reality. Derek s2e5, Kev, BBC 2014
A bloody drink there for me little old grandson. The Royle Family s3e6: Christening, Jim, BBC 2000
Gosh, drink is sure a filthy thing isn’t it? Batman 1966 starring Adam West & Burt Ward & Lee Meriwether & Cesar Romero & Burgess Meredith & Frank Gorshin & Alan Napier & Neil Hamilton & Stafford Repp & Madge Blake & Reginard Denny & Milton Frome & Gil Perkins & Dick Crockett et al, director Leslie H Martinson
They may be drinkers, Robin, but they’re also human beings. ibid. Batman
I am a person who drinks. People who drink need to keep drinking otherwise ... Game of Thrones s5e5: Kill the Boy, dwarf, HBO 2015
Now you’ve split up with Lee, would you like to come out for a drink with me? The Office US s1e4: Training, Tim, NBC 2005
My God, you can swill it down, can’t you? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton & George Segal & Sandy Dennis & Agnes Flanagan & Frank Flanagan, director Mike Nichols, him to her
Margaret: Denis likes a drink, daddy.
Dad: I gathered. The Long Walk to Finchley starring Andrea Riseborough & Samuel West & Rory Kinnear & Philip Jackson & Julia Joyce & Michael Selwood & Geoffrey Palmer et al, BBC 2008
She tells me with claret she cannot agree,
And she thinks of a hogshead when’er she sees me;
For I smell like a beast, and therefore must I
Resolve to forsake her, or claret deny.
Must I leave my dear bottle, that was always my friend,
And I hope will continue so to my life’s end?
Must I leave it for her? ’Tis a very hard task:
Let her go to the devil! – bring the other full flask … Anonymous
There are people, I know, to be found
Who say, and apparently think,
That sorrow and care may be drowned
By a timely consumption of drink … J K Stephen, Drinking Song
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That’s why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink ... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much! Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Come, come, come an’ ave a drink with me
Down by the old Bull and Bush
Come, come, come an’ shake ’ands with me
Down by the old Bull and Bush. Florrie Forde, Down at the Old Bull & Bush
I bet I know why you couldn’t sleep. You’ve been drinking too much. Don’t you think you ought to take it easy. The Sound of Fury 1950 starring Frank Lovejoy & Lloyd Bridges & Kathleen Ryan & Richard Carlson & Katherine Locke & Adale Jergens & Art Smith et al, director Cyril Endfield her to him
Drinking is a solitary sport. Southpaw 2015 starring Jake Cyllenhaal & Rachel McAdams & Forest Whitaker & Oona Laurence & Curtis 50 Cent Jackson & Skylan Brooks & Naomie Harris & Victor Ortiz & Beau Knapp & Miguel Gomez & Malcolm Mays et al, director Antoine Fuqua
Come on, can we not come to a wee arrangement, see? Tell you what, tell you what, I’ll start taking a dash of lime into my Buckfast … Rab C Nesbitt s1e3: City of Culture, Rab to doctor, BBC 1990
Where the hell do you think I’m going after a bit of news like that? I’m going to get blootered. ibid.
I’m not an alchy; alchies get pissed and lie about in gutters. ibid. Rab in the gutter
‘I try and be good but at a certain point – four or five drinks – then all of a sudden you screw it and you stop caring.’ Risky Drinking, drinker, Sky Atlantic 2017
‘I reach a point where I don’t remember.’ ibid.
Nearly 70% of American adults drink alcohol: are you a risky drinker? ibid.
Binge drinking accounts for more than half of the alcohol consumed by adults in the US. ibid.
Less than 20% of people with an alcohol use disorder receive treatment. ibid.
About 80% of people with an alcohol use disorder will relapse within the first year of sobriety. ibid.
‘I can’t see us getting together and playing bingo.’ ibid. happy hour drinking mums
Although more men than women have an alcohol use disorder the gap is narrowing. ibid.
One in six women will develop an alcohol-related health problem including cancer, heart disease, and liver damage. ibid.
‘Shit! I’m gonna die.’ ibid. Neal
Neal has been in and out of detox and rehab twelve times in the last four years. ibid.
You’re a Mormon: next to you we all have a drinking problem. Burn After Reading 2008 starring George Clooney & Frances McDormand & Brad Pitt & John Malkovich & Tilda Swinton & Richard Jenkins & Elizabeth Marvel & David Rasche & J K Simmons & Olek Krupa, directors Coen brothers, Ozzy opening scene
King: How do you manage drinking during the day?
Winston: Practice. Darkest Hour ***** 2017 starring Gary Oldman & Kristin Scott Thomas & Lily James & Ben Mendelsohn & Stephen Dillane & Ronald Pickup & Nicholas James & Samuel West & David Schofield & Richard Lumsden & Malcolm Storry et al, director Joe Wright
We’re just doing a little bit of drinking. Trailer Park Boys s1e6: Who the Hell Invited These Idiots to My Wedding? two lads in supermarket
I gotta go home, have a few drinks. Trailer Park Boys s4e1: Never Cry Shitwolf, Julian
Your mother drinks Bud! La Haine 1995 starring Vincent Cassel & Hubert Kounde & said Taghmaoui & Marc Duret & Abdel Ahmed Ghili & Francois Levantal & Tadek Lokcinski & Solo & Heloise Rauth & Choukri Gabteni & Benoit Magimel et al, director Mathieu Kassovitz, gangster insult to evicting official
My name is Adrian Chiles and I am not an alcoholic. At least I don’t think I am. I do drink most days … This is about nice, regular drinkers and the damage quietly being done to ourselves and society by drinkers like me. Drinkers Like Me – Adrian Chiles, BBC 2018
My weekly intake is something like 75 units. ibid.
For over a hundred years Pepsi and Coke have been locked in a battle for the hearts and wallets of America. Employing brilliant minds and millions of dollars, Pepsi and Co-Cola used every weapon possible to destroy their opposition. Cola Wars, History 2020
Coca-Cola was the first Cola introduced to America, created in 1886 by a Pharmacist in Atlanta Georgia; Pepsi Cola came soon after in 1993 … By the 1970s Coke was the undisputed leader. ibid.
‘Advertising gimmick … The Pepsi challenge, and the world changed.’ ibid. observer
By the end of the 1970s the soft drinks market was growing fast fuelled by the intensifying Coke wars. ibid.
In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was, ‘The pathway to wisdom lies through excess.’ Jack Kerouac, Big Sur