Alcohol Quotes - Page 23

• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Foolish Man

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.496, U of Nebraska Press

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• All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

  William Penn

  Men, Drunk, Mad

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

  David Cook

  Grief, Reactions, Wells

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• One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

  Phyllis A. Balch

  Disappointment, Drinking, Keys

  Phyllis A. Balch (2002). “Prescription for Herbal Healing”, p.179, Penguin

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• 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 philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

  Roland Barthes

  Country, Drinking, Wine

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• Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

  Griffith Edwards

  Bottles, Facts, Genies

  Griffith Edwards (2013). “Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug”, p.1, Macmillan

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

  Alben W. Barkley

  Inspirational, Drinking, Intelligent

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• Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Drinking, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.86, Ballantine Books

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• After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, War, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

  Robin Williams

  Drinking, Ideas, Wow

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• Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Beer, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.24, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

  Douglas Adams

  World, Six, Bitter

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.38, Del Rey

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• Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

  John Ciardi

  Beer, Civilization, Inseparable

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• All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Rare Moments, Consciousness

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• The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

  Timothy Leary

  Discovery, Drug, Mind

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Progress, Eating

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.12

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• Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.

  Irwin Corey

  Drinking, Beer, Drug

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• I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Giving Up, Beer, Age

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• This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “To Have and Have Not”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beer, Feelings, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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