Alcohol Quotes - Page 22

• Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

  George Saintsbury

  Soul, Body, Drink

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Tired, Wine, Feel Better

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• An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Wine, Odes

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• Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Silly, Food, Wine

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• Alcoholism is the disease of more.

  Caroline Knapp

  Disease, Alcoholism

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.57, Dial Press

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• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

  Robert E. Lee

  Civil War, Moral, Moderation

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.443, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Humor, Drug

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• Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

  Michael Josephson

  Humor, Eye, Practice

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• From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Drug, Hiv

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Kings, Humble, Humor

  The New Statesman 'London Diary' 3 August (1962)

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• If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.

  John Van de Kamp

  Humor, Past, Parent

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• Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Law, Drug

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money.

  Peggy Noonan

  Humor, Men, Law

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

  Betty Ford

  Humor, Makeup, Bottles

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1987). “Betty: A Glad Awakening”, Doubleday Books

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• Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

  Bill W.

  Believe, Humor, Seeing Is Believing

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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• Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted.

  Jackie Collins

  Humor, Drug, Viagra

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• Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

  Margery Allingham

  Anger, Perception, Devil

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.170, Ipso Books

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• During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Ulysses's Grant, Excess

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Drinking, Hysteria

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

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• I can't stop once I've started.... it stings!

  Jake Anderson

  I Can

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• Hefeweizen. Never drink something you can't spill.

  Steve Miller

  Drink, Spills

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• Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.

  Kin Hubbard

  Drinking, Food, Ale

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• And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

  Betty Ford

  Patient, Speak, Drink

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• Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Drinking, Community, Abuse

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