Alcohol Quotes - Page 29

• Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Power, Average, Dominion

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• In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

  Wallace Mercer

  Soccer, Football, Scotland

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• Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

  Martin Luther

  Men, Sides, Reason

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• The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

  Douglas Adams

  Lying, Ideas, Drunk

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts".

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• If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.

  Jay Adams

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Wine, Brandy

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• The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten. And some of us, though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.

  Charles Gavan Duffy

  Dog, Horse, Wine

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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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• Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

  Homer

  Wine, Thoughtful, Men

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• Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

  William James

  Running, Men, Sobriety

  1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience,'Mysticism'.

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• When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.

  Caroline Knapp

  Strong, Real, Gears

  Caroline Knapp (1996). “Drinking: A Love Story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

  Louis L'Amour

  Sweet, Coffee, Wine

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.72, Bantam

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• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Wine, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Theodore G. Tappert (2003). “Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel”, p.86, Regent College Publishing

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• Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

  John Lyly

  Long

  John Lyly (1868). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit. Editio Princeps. 1579. Euphues and His England. Editio Princeps. 1580. Collated with Early Subsequent Editions”, p.229

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• If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Giving Up, Drinking, Years

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• There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

  Barnabe Rich

  Three, Praying, Swear

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• Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Queens, Glasses, Widows

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 3, sc. 3

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• One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Drinking, Wine, Years

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• I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Call Me, Intoxicated

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• There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

  Warren Zevon

  Real, Drinking, Brave

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• A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Impact, Addiction, Drug

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• I don’t shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don’t feel the need for it. If anything I’ll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I’d stop. And it did get to the point.

  Julian Casablancas

  Needs, Site, Songwriting

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• I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Bombs, Noise, I Can

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• If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.

  Jonathan Evison

  Party, Book, Night

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• We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

  John Mortimer

  Humans, Knows, Conscience

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