This one's from a good friend:
Amitabh Bachchan, in one of his movies, is drunk when points to a bottle of whiskey and says, "If this thing had spirit in it, it would behave drunk." (that's the best translation i could manage).
What it means is that the alchohol itself does not make us behave strangely, but it only releases something that is already there within us. Think about it.....