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Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Schefer, L.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Herbert, George

11.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

13.

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

14.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

Farquhar, George

20.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

21.

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

22.

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

Kerr, Jean

23.

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

Watson, Sir William

24.

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.

25.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

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

27.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

29.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

30.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Selden, John

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

39.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

40.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

44.

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

Havner, Vance

45.

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

46.

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

Fields, W. C.

47.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

49.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

50.

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.