Alcohol Metabolism Quotes

Alcohol - once you drink it, it enters your bloodstream roughly in about an hour's time and begins to get processed. It doesn't sit around in your stomach for a long period of time.

I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

Time, motion and wine cause sleep.

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go "What happens if you take two?"

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

There's one surefire hangover cure, and that's time.

Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.

Sometimes when you get hammered till the small hours you feel pretty good in the morning, but really it's just because you're still a bit drunk. That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.

I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?

I don't get hangovers - it's some kind of superhuman ability.

Somehow I always get stronger when I'm on my second drink

If you drink O'Douls, you don't drink; but if you drink 20 O'Douls in a half hour, then you're a non-alcoholic.

Maintaining your hydration status is probably the most important thing, along with rest, that you can do with a hangover.

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.