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Alcohol and alcoholism

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Watson, Sir William

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

10.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Fields, W. C.

12.

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

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When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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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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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

Schefer, L.

22.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

23.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

25.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

26.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

27.

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

28.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

I drink to make other people interesting.

32.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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

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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

41.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

42.

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

Squire, John

43.

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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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

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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

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

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Farquhar, George

49.

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

Lewis, Joe E.