Quotes about alcohol and alcoholism

"Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either."

Gay, John on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well."

Goldsmith, Oliver on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."

Havner, Vance on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations."

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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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"Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief."

Hemingway, Ernest on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee."

Herbert, George on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."

Housman, A. E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."

Housman, A. E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"They who drink beer will think beer."

Irving, Washington on alcohol and alcoholism
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"If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

James, William on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes."

James, William on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk."

Johnson, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism   

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."

Johnson, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism
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"There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten."

Johnson, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living."

Kerr, Jean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."

Khayyam, Omar on alcohol and alcoholism   

"There is a devil in every berry of the grape."

Koran, The on alcohol and alcoholism   

"A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped [drinking], I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now."

Larroquette, John on alcohol and alcoholism   

"My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health."

Lee, Robert E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it."

Lee, Robert E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I always wake up at the crack of ice."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I drink to forget I drink."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"It pays to get drunk with the best people."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."

Lincoln, Abraham on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day."

Martin, Dean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt."

Martin, Dean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water."

Masson, Thomas L. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank."

Mencken, H. L. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine."

Milton, John on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker."

Nash, Ogden on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"I only drink to make other people seem more interesting."

Nathan, George Jean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with, and it must be so."

Native American Elder on alcohol and alcoholism   

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism   

"A torchlight procession marching down your throat."

O'Sullivan, John Louis on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company."

Pepys, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism