drunkard

alcohol

is one who can live neither with alcohol nor without it.

A drunkard can live neither with alcohol nor without it.

is one who can't make both ends meet because he's too busy making one end drink.

A drunkard can't make both ends meet because he's too busy making one end drink.

is one who reforms when he keels into his grave.

The drunkard reforms when he keels into his grave

is like a whiskey bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

is a man who believes that from birth to death, the road is very short, but zigzagging, one can make it longer.

A drunkard said, "From birth to death, the road is very short. Zigzagging, I can make it longer."

is not one who suck out of the bottle; rather, one whereby the bottle sucks out of him