Alcohol Quotes - Page 8

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Children, Gun

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• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

  Ovid

  Courage, Drinking, Passion

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• When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Flames, Ideas, Funny Sarcastic

  "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company". Book by James R. Mellow, 1974.

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• I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.

  Paris Hilton

  Hate, Drinking, Bulls

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• As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

  Jim Ramstad

  Recovery, Addiction, Funny Sarcastic

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• Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

  Jonathan Swift

  Liquor, Lost, Belly

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.322

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• If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while.

  Joseph M. Schenck

  Lying, Drinking, Drunk

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• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Men, Wind

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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  I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

  George Best

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.

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• I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

  Oliver Reed

  Drinking, Thinking, Doctors

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• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

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• Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

  Lou Reed

  People, Drug, Ego

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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• I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

  Trisha Goddard

  Keel, Concerned, Hard

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Cutting, Thinking

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• My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Second Marriage

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

  Carre Otis

  Ice Cream, Drug, Eating Disorder

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• Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

  Keith Henson

  Recovery, Long, People

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• When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

  Mick Mars

  Attitude, Mind, Way

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• Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Drinking, Book

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• I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Thinking, Doe

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

  Walter Map

  Death, Drinking, Inns

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• Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

  Gerard Way

  Drinking, Coffee, Smoking

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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