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Alcohol and alcoholism

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Kerr, Jean

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

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

Bible

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

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Squire, John

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

Havner, Vance

15.

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

Schefer, L.

16.

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

17.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

18.

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

Yeats, William Butler

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

22.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

23.

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.

24.

I drink to make other people interesting.

25.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

26.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

27.

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

28.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

Fields, W. C.

32.

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

Farquhar, George

33.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

37.

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

Bunuel, Luis

38.

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

39.

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

Fields, W. C.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Lee, Robert E.

43.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

44.

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

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

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

47.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

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

Herbert, George

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.