Alcohol Quotes - Page 5

• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  W. C. Fields

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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

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• There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

  Barry Mann

  Personality, Drug, Trying

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

  Knute Rockne

  Drinking, Cocktails, Firsts

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• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

  James Thurber

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  Zakk Wylde

  Two, Wife, Guy

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• But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

  Truman Capote

  Drinking, Drug, Saint

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Four, Lightning

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.29, University of Georgia Press

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• Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Drinking, Cocktails

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  Xavier Becerra

  Drug, Abuse, Age

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• I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

  Harvey Martin

  Appreciate, Drug, Abuse

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• If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

  Penn Jillette

  Wine, Order, Drug

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

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• Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Kids, Drug, Trying

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• We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

  Bill Bruford

  Fear, Awful, Drink

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Brain, Unhappy

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Drinking, Answers, Information

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• I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Suicide, Drinking

  Charles Bukowski, “The Suicide Kid”

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• There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Understanding, Relief

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

  Warren Ellis

  Morning, Angel, Scotch

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• How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

  Sara Gruen

  Cheer, Law, Canada

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• In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Food, Mean, Cooking

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• I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

  Stephen King

  Drinking, Recovery, Kissing

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

  Jim Carrey

  Beautiful, Funny Sarcastic, Drug

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• There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Stress, Exercise, Smoking

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• I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Party, Drinking, Beer

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

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