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Alcohol and alcoholism

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Fielding, Henry

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

11.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Lee, Robert E.

17.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

18.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

21.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

Schefer, L.

27.

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

Squire, John

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

31.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Barthes, Roland

32.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Selden, John

39.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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.

43.

I drink to make other people interesting.

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''

45.

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

Watson, Sir William

46.

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

Rabelais, Francois

47.

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

Bunuel, Luis

48.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.