Strong Drink Quotes

• What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

  Douglas Adams

  Strong, Groups, Needs

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Missing You, Strong, Drinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Lunch, Alcohol

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Recalled on his death, 4 Jun1971.

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• Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?

  Mary Cantwell

  Strong, Hangover, Dark

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• "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  "Things Fall Apart". Book by Chinua Achebe (Chapter 15, p. 130), 1958.

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• Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Strong, Drinking

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• Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.

  Alexander Herzen

  Strong, Men, Civilization

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• When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.

  Florence King

  Suicide, Country, Strong

  Florence King (1976). “Southern ladies and gentlemen”

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• We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, Powerful, Gun

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Nov 10, 2011

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• An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Strong, Imagination, May

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• My body is weird. I can't drink strong drinks. I can't even drink cough medicine - I used to cry when my mom forced me. I don't drink alcohol.

  Rahim Moore

  Mom, Strong, Medicine

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• When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink.

  Moses

  Strong, Wine, Men

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• Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Drinking, Men

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• The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Strong, Home, Men

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Demon Drink”

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• Some crave grief like strong drink.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Grief, Addiction

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• I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

  Elvis Presley

  Strong, Marijuana, Thinking

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• There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

  John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

  Strong, Drink, Crime

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• All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.167, Editorial MAXTOR

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• TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Strong, Food, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Patience, Strong, Despair

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.134

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• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  John Woolman

  Strong, Men, Understanding

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Good Luck, Evil

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• Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all, the cream of the national sporting press.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Coffee, Night

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• Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Strong, Indulge In

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.31, Rabindranath Tagore

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