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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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Selden, John

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

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Herbert, George

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

Schefer, L.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Kerr, Jean

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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Behan, Brendan F.

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I drink to make other people interesting.

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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

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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

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Barach, Alvan L.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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.

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Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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

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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

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

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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

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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.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.