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1->''Candy\
2Is Dandy\
3But liquor\
4Is quicker.''
5-->-- '''Creator/OgdenNash''', "Reflections on Ice-Breaking"
6
7->''Oh booze, sweet booze. The sweet nectar can be a delicious and wonderful thing, but sometimes it leads you down a dark, destructive path where you wake up with half of your face burned off because the booze screwed with your decision-making skills and you thought it would be a really good idea to eat out [[Creator/ParisHilton Parasite Hilton.]]''
8-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/01/09/henry-cavill-and-parasite-hilton-left-the-chateau-marmont-together/ Michael K.]]'''
9
10->''"If I hadn't been drinking Ripple, I would've never had you. Ripple's your real Daddy!"''
11-->--'''Dr. Hibbert's''' father, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
12
13->''"In a few hours, I'm gonna look like a good idea!"''
14-->-- '''Lewis''', ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow''
15
16->''"I like to have a martini,\
17Two at the very most.\
18After three I'm under the table,\
19after four I'm under my host. "''
20-->-- Attributed to '''Creator/DorothyParker'''
21
22->''It's Cold Gin time again\
23You know it always wins!\
24Cold Gin time again\
25You know it's the only thing\
26That keeps us together!''
27-->-- '''{{Music/KISS}}''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC9A8wjojzY "Cold Gin"]]
28
29->'''Chandler:''' How drunk are you?
30->'''Monica:''' Drunk enough that I wanna do this. Not so drunk you should feel guilty for taking advantage.
31->'''Chandler:''' ''[beat]'' Well that's the perfect amount!
32-->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}''
33
34->'''Zii''' ''(on texting a breakup to her boyfriend with the express intent of begging forgiveness the next morning so jumping the half-naked girl next to her would not be cheating)'':'Shonya... it might be the alllcohol talkin', but that is one brilliant idea!
35-->-- '''Webcomic/MenageA3''
36
37->"Everybody moved to new hot spots- the Jockey Club, the Coconut Grove, the Bombay, and later the Cricket Club, the disco in the Quayside Towers. People called the Quayside Towers the "Quaalude Towers". Quaaludes were the other great drug that people were taking along with coke. Quaaludes were more underground when Andy and I snuck them into the punch in our New York discos. In Miami you'd go out for drinks with a broad, and she'd bring her own Quaaludes. It wasn't like today, where a guy will sneak roofies into some poor broad's drinks so he could have his way with her. Back then broads would knock themselves out on purpose."
38-->--''Literature/AmericanDesperado'' by '''Jon Roberts''' and '''Evan Wright''',
39
40->''Now wait a minute\
41Things don't look too familiar\
42Who is the cowboy who's sleepin' beside me\
43Well he's awful cute\
44But how do I get his shirt on\
45I had too much tequila last night''
46-->-- '''Music/ShellyWest''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7EZ9V6F9yo Jose Cuervo"]]
47
48->"Quaaludes were very popular in Miami in the [[TheSeventies early 1970s]] and Bauer, a connoisseur of illicit substances, nominates the Rorer 714 Quaalude as the world's best drug and Quaaludes as the world's best drug and Quaaludes in general as a fine aphrodisiac. A number of airlines had [[SexyStewardess stewardess training programs]] in Miami at that time, so the apartment complexes were flooded with attractive, adventurous young women, much to the budding drug dealer's delight. The Quaaludes were so effective at disarming those women that the men nicknamed the drug "instant pussy"."
49-->--''Jackpot: High Times, High Seas and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs''
50
51->''"We'll do some drinkin'\
52We'll tell some jokes\
53We'll spend some money\
54And tell some lies\
55And make us look good in our new neighborhood\
56Make us look good in our new neighborhood\
57Make us look good in our new neighborhood"''
58
59
60->''"We'll feel some muscles\
61We'll tell some jokes\
62We'll write the wrong phone numbers on their shirts\
63'Cause I'm not lookin' to fall in love\
64You know I'm not lookin' to fall in love"''
65-->-- '''Music/KTOslin''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqaAl1_WZc "Mexico Road"]]
66
67->'''Gumball''': Can kids buy potions?\
68'''Carrie:''' What do you mean?\
69'''Gumball''': You know, some kind of LovePotion that tricks you into thinking everyone is beautiful.\
70'''Carrie:''' That sounds more like a mistake potion, and we need a fake I.D. to buy one.
71-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', "The Matchmaker"
72
73->'''Vila:''' I'm going to be thrilled one way or another. ''[Furtive glances at Dayna]'' Have a drink, Dayna.
74->'''Dayna:''' Do you know your most attractive quality, Vila?
75->'''Vila:''' ''[Eagerly]'' No. What?
76->'''Dayna:''' [[SarcasmMode Your subtlety.]]
77-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven''
78
79->''He had slyly inveigled her up to his flat\
80To view his collection of stamps;\
81And he said as he hastened to put out the cat\
82The wine, his cigar, and the lamps:\
83"Have some madeira, m'dear..."\
84...\
85Unaware of the wiles of the snake in the grass\
86Of the fate of the maiden who topes\
87She lowered her standards by raising her glass\
88Her courage, her eyes, and his hopes\
89She sipped it, she drank it\
90She drained it, she did\
91And he quietly refilled it again\
92And he said as he secretly carved one more notch\
93On the butt of his gold-handled cane...\
94"Have some madeira, m'dear..."\
95...\
96Then there flashed through her mind what her mother had said\
97With her ante-penultimate breath:\
98"Oh my child should you look on the wine when 'tis red\
99Be prepared for a fate worse than death!"''
100-->-- '''Music/FlandersAndSwann,''' "Madeira M'Dear"

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