| ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM |
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Quote: Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker. Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet Quote: I only drink to make other people seem more interesting. Author: George Jean Nathan 1882-1958, American Critic Quote: 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. Author: Native American Elder Quote: For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher Quote: Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher Quote: A torchlight procession marching down your throat. Author: John Louis O'Sullivan Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Pepys 1633-1703, British Diarist Quote: This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. Author: Titus Maccius Plautus BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet Quote: What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. Author: Irish Proverb Sayings of Irish Origin Quote: Old wine and friends improve with age. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin Quote: Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. Author: Spanish Proverb Sayings of Spanish Origin Quote: When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink. Author: Frantois Rabelais 1495-1553, French Satirist, Physician, and Humanist Quote: I do not live in the world of sobriety. Author: Oliver Reed Quote: Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist Quote: They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. Author: L. Schefer Quote: Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet Quote: It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. Author: John Selden 1584-1654, British Jurist, Statesman Quote: Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher Quote: 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! Author: Pete Sermond Quote: 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. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: 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. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts! Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor Quote: I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist Quote: 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! Author: Edward Rowland Sill Quote: I'm not so think as you drunk I am. Author: John Squire Quote: Wine is bottled poetry. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist Quote: 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! Author: Eliza ''Mother'' Stewart Quote: Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist Quote: There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. Author: Booth Tarkington 1869-1946, American Writer Quote: The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. Author: Sir William Temple 1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist Quote: Water is the only drink for a wise man. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist Quote: 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. Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator Quote: Sometimes too much drink is barely enough. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer Quote: Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer Quote: Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder! Author: Source Unknown Quote: I drink to make other people interesting. Author: Source Unknown Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown Quote: Many a woman drives a man to drink… water. Author: Source Unknown Quote: The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta. Author: Source Unknown Quote: The piano has been drinking, not me. Author: Tom Waits 1949-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Actor Quote: 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. Author: Denzel Washington 1954-, American Actor Quote: And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses? Author: Sir William Watson 1858-1935, British Poet Quote: The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. Author: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright. Quote: 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. Author: Frank Zappa 1940-, American Rock Musician Quote: 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. Author: Henry Aldrich American Editor, Actor Quote: One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. Author: Lady Nancy Astor 1897-1964, British Politician Quote: An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor. Author: Alvan L. Barach Quote: The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. Author: Alben W. Barkley 1877-1956, American Politician Quote: 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. Author: Roland Barthes 1915-1980, French Semiologist Quote: One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. Author: Brendan F. Behan 1923-1964, Irish Writer Quote: Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Quote: The whole world is about three drinks behind. Author: Humphrey Bogart 1899-1957, American Film Actor Quote: Never accept a drink from a Urologist. Author: Erma Bombeck 1927-, American Author, Humorist Quote: Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer Quote: The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. Author: Luis Bunuel 1900-1983, Spanish Film Director Quote: When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk. Author: Sir Richard Burton 1821-1890, Explorer, Born in Torquay Quote: It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist Quote: Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet Quote: Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet Quote: 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. Author: Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author Quote: 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. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author Quote: I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister Quote: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister Quote: 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. Author: Irvin S. Cobb Quote: Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher Quote: 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!'' Author: Aleister Crowley 1875-1947, British Occultist Quote: Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist Quote: Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Author: Finley Peter Dunne 1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist Quote: 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. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker Quote: Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker Quote: 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. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker Quote: 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. Author: Marguerite Duras 1914-, French Author, Filmmaker Quote: There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher Quote: I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. Author: George Farquhar c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright Quote: Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist Quote: I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming. Author: W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor Quote: I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. Author: W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor Quote: It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. Author: W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor Quote: Somebody left the cork out of my lunch. Author: W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor Quote: The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. Author: W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor Quote: You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. Author: W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor Quote: A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author Quote: Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author Quote: Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. Author: John Gay 1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet Quote: 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. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright Quote: I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. Author: Vance Havner Quote: 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. Author: Vance Havner Quote: Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer Quote: 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. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer Quote: Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet Quote: Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. Author: A. E. Housman 1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar Quote: Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. Author: A. E. Housman 1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar Quote: They who drink beer will think beer. Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author Quote: If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Quote: The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Quote: A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author Quote: There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author Quote: There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author Quote: Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. Author: Jean Kerr 1923-, American Author, Playwright Quote: Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. Author: Omar Khayyam 1048-1131, Persian Astronomer, Poet Quote: There is a devil in every berry of the grape. Author: The Koran c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible Quote: 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. Author: John Larroquette 1947-, American Actor Quote: I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. Author: Robert E. Lee 1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander Quote: 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. Author: Robert E. Lee 1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander Quote: A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer Quote: I always wake up at the crack of ice. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer Quote: I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer Quote: I drink to forget I drink. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer Quote: I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer Quote: It pays to get drunk with the best people. Author: Joe E. Lewis American Writer Quote: I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA Quote: 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. Author: Dean Martin 1917-1995, French-born American-born American Actor, Singer, Lush Quote: If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. Author: Dean Martin 1917-1995, French-born American-born American Actor, Singer, Lush Quote: Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water. Author: Thomas L. Masson Quote: A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist Quote: And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet |
