Quotes about alcohol and alcoholism

"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on alcohol and alcoholism   

"What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for."

Proverb, Irish on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Old wine and friends improve with age."

Proverb, Italian on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker."

Proverb, Spanish on alcohol and alcoholism   

"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink."

Rabelais, Francois on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I do not live in the world of sobriety."

Reed, Oliver on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."

Russell, Bertrand on alcohol and alcoholism
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"They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst."

Schefer, L. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."

Scott, Sir Walter on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."

Selden, John on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca on alcohol and alcoholism
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"If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!"

Sermond, Pete on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet."

Shakespeare, William on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine."

Shakespeare, William on alcohol and alcoholism   

"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!"

Shakespeare, William on alcohol and alcoholism   

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil."

Shakespeare, William on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off."

Shakespeare, William on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler."

Shaw, George Bernard on alcohol and alcoholism   

"At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!"

Sill, Edward Rowland on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I'm not so think as you drunk I am."

Squire, John on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Wine is bottled poetry."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!"

Stewart, Eliza ''Mother'' on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."

Swift, Jonathan on alcohol and alcoholism   

"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink."

Tarkington, Booth on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."

Temple, Sir William on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Water is the only drink for a wise man."

Thoreau, Henry David on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home."

Thurber, James on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."

Twain, Mark on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."

Twain, Mark on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care."

Unknown, Source on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Many a woman drives a man to drink water."

Unknown, Source on alcohol and alcoholism   

"The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta."

Unknown, Source on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!"

Unknown, Source on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I drink to make other people interesting."

Unknown, Source on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The piano has been drinking, not me."

Waits, Tom on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially."

Washington, Denzel on alcohol and alcoholism   

"And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?"

Watson, Sir William on alcohol and alcoholism   

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

Yeats, William Butler on alcohol and alcoholism   

"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER."

Zappa, Frank on alcohol and alcoholism
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