"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee."

Herbert, George on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

Byron, Lord on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts."

Dunne, Finley Peter on alcohol and alcoholism
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"There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Somebody left the cork out of my lunch."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

Fuller, Thomas on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

Fuller, Thomas on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Hemingway, Ernest on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after."

Byron, Lord on alcohol and alcoholism
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"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."

Burton, Sir Richard on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Never accept a drink from a Urologist."

Bombeck, Erma on alcohol and alcoholism
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"One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough."

Behan, Brendan F. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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"A friend in power is a friend lost."

Adams, Henry Brooks on power
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"They know enough who know how to learn."

Adams, Henry Brooks on education
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Acton, Lord on power
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"Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest."

Banks, Harry F. on power
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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