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Alcohol and alcoholism

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

13.

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

Watson, Sir William

14.

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

Squire, John

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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.

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

20.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, George

21.

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Herbert, George

24.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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I drink to make other people interesting.

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fielding, Henry

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

Havner, Vance

35.

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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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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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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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

40.

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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

44.

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

Selden, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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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