Alcohol Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Kids, Games, Video

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• An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate.

  Byron Katie

  Honesty, Writing, Uncomfortable Feeling

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• The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

  Esther Dyson

  Addiction, Loner, Want

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• Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

  James Carriger Paine

  Libertarian Party, Drug, Liberty

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• Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

  Emilio Estevez

  Lonely, Jobs, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Earth

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Ideas, Lazy

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

  George Saintsbury

  Beauty, Drinking, Race

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

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• Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Insanity, Drunkenness

  Epistulae ad Lucilium LXXXIII

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