Alcohol Quotes - Page 24

• A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  True Friend, Beer, Two

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.768, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I drink no more than a sponge.

  Francois Rabelais

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis.

  Nick Offerman

  Weed, Marijuana, Body

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.94, Penguin

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• Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?

  Bill Hicks

  Marijuana, Games, Drunk

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• All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Writing, Marijuana

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs like we handle alcohol? ... I fear the drug war because it undermines our civil liberties. It magnifies our problems on the borders. We've spent over the last 40 years a trillion dollars on this war and - believe me - the kids can still get the drugs. It just hasn't worked.

  Ron Paul

  War, Believe, Kids

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• Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

  John Donne

  Truth, Honesty, Excess

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• There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Snakes, Differences, Heaven

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• A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.

  Daniel Amen

  Health, People, Safety

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• If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.

  Euripides

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.908, Delphi Classics

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• The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

  Euripides

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

  Euripides (1929). “Euripides: With an English Translation”

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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.

  William Temple

  Glasses, Enemy, Firsts

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• An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

  Byron Katie

  Honesty, Writing, Uncomfortable Feeling

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• The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

  Esther Dyson

  Addiction, Loner, Want

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• Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

  James Carriger Paine

  Libertarian Party, Drug, Liberty

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• Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

  Emilio Estevez

  Lonely, Jobs, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Earth

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Ideas, Lazy

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

  George Saintsbury

  Beauty, Drinking, Race

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Insanity, Drunkenness

  Epistulae ad Lucilium LXXXIII

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

  Groucho Marx

  Drinking, Inspiration, Three

  "Fictional character: S. Quentin Quale". "Go West", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Doctors, Blood

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• When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

  James Garner

  Marijuana, Years, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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