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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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.

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

Schefer, L.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

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

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

13.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

17.

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

18.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

20.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

21.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Watson, Sir William

23.

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

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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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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 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

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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.

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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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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''

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

Fielding, Henry

37.

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

Lee, Robert E.

38.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

41.

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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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

45.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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.

48.

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

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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

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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