Liquor Quotes - Page 13

• Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

  Laura Joh Rowland

  Mind, Body, Dull

  Laura Joh Rowland (2007). “The Concubine's Tattoo”, p.229, Macmillan

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• The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Cups, Empty, Clean

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• I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

  John Waters

  Mean, Bars, Prison

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.137, Macmillan

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• The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.

  June Allyson

  Stars, Children, Coffee

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

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• Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

  Margaret Halsey

  Patterns, Employed, Alcoholism

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.

  Patton Oswalt

  Cowboy, Magic, Puppets

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• How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

  Charles Kingsley

  Character, Blue, Pills

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• The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Politics

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

  Coco Chanel

  Health, Light, Nightlife

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• The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat.

  Faxian

  Country, Pigs, Vegetarianism

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• We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.

  Bill W.

  Attitude, Effort, Miracle

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

  Jenny Lawson

  Choices, Childhood, Liquor Stores

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened”, p.16, Penguin

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• If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick.

  Mark Lanegan

  Drunk, Sick, Tears

  Song: St. Louis Elegy, Album: Blues Funeral, 2012

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• Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

  Margaret Way

  Law, House Guests, Firsts

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• Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Liquor Stores

  "Housekeeper Tells Her Side of Alleged Cell Phone Assault; High Profile Divorces Announced; "Basic Instinct 2" Finally Released". "Showbiz Tonight", edition.cnn.com. March 31, 2006.

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• Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Anger, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1716, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

  Hal Turner

  Easter, Dad, Coffee

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• My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

  Stephen King

  Running, Dope, People

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Running, Stress, Men

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• Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Beer, Marijuana, Law

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1985). “Right Reason: A Collection”, Doubleday Books

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• I buy water at the liquor store across the street from where I live. So I'm walking into the door, and standing, loitering, outside the door is a man. And I walk by him to go in, and he says, "I want pussy!" Now, I don't want to seem conceited or anything, but he was talking about me!

  Sarah Silverman

  Conceited, Men, Doors

  "Fictional character: Sarah". "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", February 11, 2005.

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• The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Law, Practice

  Speech in the House of Lords, February 22, 1743.

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• For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

  Mason Cooley

  Towers, Bottles, Gleam

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• I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.

  Artemas Ward

  Alcohol, Kind, Hotel

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• Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.

  James Boswell

  Wise, Teacher, Strong

  James Boswell (1827). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...”, p.58

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