Alcohol Quotes - Page 6

• I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Two, Kick Ass

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

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• I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

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• Never accept a drink from a urologist.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Drinking, Animal

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

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Dream, Drug Use, Scary

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• Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Pain, Exercise, People

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• I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Men, Rotten

  "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".

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• A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Food, Men

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• This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

  Plautus

  Funny, Drinking, Wine

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• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Bedtime, Drink

  Paris Review Interview (1981), later quoted in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series", 1981.

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• Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

  Tom Waits

  Drunk, Religion, Atheism

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• The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

  David Wilkerson

  Girl, Country, Women

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• I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

  Cole Porter

  Wine, Thrill, Champagne

  "I Get a Kick Out of You" (song) (1934)

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

  Richard Matheson

  Drinking, Delight, Too Much

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.

  Craig Ferguson

  Beer, Tequila, Cocaine

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• Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

  Craig Ferguson

  Money, Drinking, Heart

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• There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

  Charles Bukowski

  Glorious, Drinkers

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• And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

  John Milton

  Wine, Son, Night

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 500

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• The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

  Russell Brand

  Drinking, Addiction, Drug

  "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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• As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Food, Long

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Brain, Wish

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

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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• A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Men, Drunk, Holding On

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• If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

  Dick Gregory

  Funny Sarcastic, Drug, Tanks

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