Alcohol Quotes - Page 2

• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Religious, Atheist

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

  George Burns

  Clever, Drinking, Drunk

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  I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Enemy, Bullets, Alcohol And Life

  "Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee". Book by John William Jones, 1874.

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• Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

  Robert Benchley

  Drinking, People, Liquor Funny

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

  Marguerite Duras

  Night, Men, Darkness

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

  Denise Richards

  Wine, Red, Margarita

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• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Patience, Drinking, Funny Sarcastic

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• I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

  Tom Waits

  Drinking, Problem, Funny Drinking

  Song: Bad Liver And A Broken Heart, Album: Small Change

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Hippie, Drinking

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• Wine is bottled poetry.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Drinking, Food

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4365, Delphi Classics

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• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....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!

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Men, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]

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• Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Waiting, Drug, Patient

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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  If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  Jack Herer

  Weed, Marijuana, Years

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Ovid

  Men, Naps, Facts

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• Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

  Don Dokken

  Drug, Ego

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

  Galileo Galilei

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

  N. F. Simpson

  Drinking, Food, Reality

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• A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

  Albert Einstein

  Drinking, Inventory, Bartender

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• 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.

  William James

  Beer, Criticism, Dry

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.387, Courier Corporation

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• I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Father, Humor

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

  Matt Groening

  Food, Humor, Answers

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