Alcohol Quotes - Page 4

• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  Uttered during a lunch with the Arab leader, Ibn Saud

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• One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

  Jim Harrison

  Hangover, Thinking, Curious

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Sundog”, p.135, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Grief, Heart, Beer

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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• Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

  Martin Scorsese

  Class, People, Working Class

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  Xavier Becerra

  Drinking, Kids, Decision

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• As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long, Complaining, Praise

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• I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.

  Nancy Astor

  Beer, Glasses, Adultery

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• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  Xavier Becerra

  Teenage, Years, Decision

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• In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

  Penn Jillette

  Drug, Private Life

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

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• Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

  Kyan Douglas

  Drug, Drugs And Alcohol, Destructive

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Baby, Motivational Sports

  "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Drinking, Cooking, Misunderstood

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• Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

  Kirstie Alley

  Drug, Culture, Admiration

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

  Winston Churchill

  Military, People, Drunk

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "On Invisibility". "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1953.

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• I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

  Craig Ferguson

  Recovery, Thinking, Addiction

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• Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Travel, Book, Drinking

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• Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

  Morgan Freeman

  Drinking, Struggle, Weather

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Lying, Drinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

  Larry Hagman

  Turkeys, People, Withdrawal

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• Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

  Harry Houdini

  Burning, Cotton, Balls

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Food, Book

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

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• I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

  Penn Jillette

  Drug, Drink

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

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