Drinking Quotes - Page 23

• There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Fighting, Making Love, Three

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

  Wendy Liebman

  Sex, Safe, Way

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• Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Simple, Animal, Moral Fiber

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

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• If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Cat, Clothes

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• nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

  Isabelle Holland

  Cost, Stop Drinking, Higher

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• Whoever I had become had to die.

  Craig Ferguson

  Alcohol, Dies

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• Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

  Marian Engel

  House, Alcohol, Grew Up

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Years, Ebb And Flow

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• The wages of Gin is Debt.

  Ethel Mumford

  Wages, Debt, Wit

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• Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

  Ethel Mumford

  Heart, Absinthe, Wit

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• The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty.
  When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape.
  The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Nature, Real, Knowledge

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.38, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

  Koren Zailckas

  Firsts, Remember, Minutiae

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.12, Penguin

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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Alcohol, Comforting, May

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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• It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Fall, People, Mind

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Writing, School

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

  Mick Jagger

  Thinking, Long, Drug

  "CNN Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Some people work with a trainer, some people work with a stylist. I work with a celebrity fecalist. A fecalist is basically a person who comes and collects my stools, and then examines them to see if I'm eating right and if I should be drinking more water and what my moods should be.

  Tina Fey

  People, Water, Stylist

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

  Richard Simmons

  Morning, Meditation Practice, Espresso

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• I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

  Billy Crystal

  Grateful, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.

  M.C. Beaton

  Sober Up, Views, People

  M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

  Marvin Shanken

  Memories, Wine, Glasses

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• Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.

  Marvin Shanken

  Wine, Appreciate, Effort

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• Good liquor is not cheap. Cheap liquor is not good.

  Dorothy Draper

  Liquor

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• No matter what ailed you, a small glass of schnapps would take care of it at once. This particular remedy was so good my grandfather would frequently take the cure even before there was anything wrong with him.

  Molly Picon

  Glasses, Grandfather, Care

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

  Daphne Merkin

  Reading, Self, Imagination

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