Quotes about alcohol and alcoholism




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"If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why."

Aldrich, Henry on alcohol and alcoholism    Share


"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time."

Astor, Lady Nancy on alcohol and alcoholism
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"An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor."

Barach, Alvan L. on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk."

Barkley, Alben W. 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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"Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise."

Bible on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"The whole world is about three drinks behind."

Bogart, Humphrey on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"Never accept a drink from a Urologist."

Bombeck, Erma on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time."

Bunuel, Luis on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"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    Share

"It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk."

Butler, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

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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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"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 like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

Chandler, Raymond on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across."

Cobb, Irvin S. on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!"

Crowley, Aleister on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."

Dickens, Charles 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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"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"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    Share

"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."

Epictetus on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."

Farquhar, George on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."

Fielding, Henry on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

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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"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

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    Share

"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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