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Alcohol and alcoholism

I drink to make other people interesting.

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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.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

12.

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

Farquhar, George

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

I drink to make other people interesting.

19.

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

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

21.

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''

22.

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

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

27.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

30.

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

Squire, John

31.

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

Kerr, Jean

32.

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

Havner, Vance

33.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

34.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

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

Rabelais, Francois

39.

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

40.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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

42.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Lee, Robert E.

46.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.