Alcohol Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

  Peter Steele

  Fans, Bigs, Effects

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• One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

  John Milton

  Dream, Drinking, Tea

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.379

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• I drink therefore I am.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Clever, Drinking

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• You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

  Dr. Dre

  Years, House, Dollars

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

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• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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• There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, World, Favors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.199, Penguin

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• Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Drinking, Health, Men

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• A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Running, Drinking

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• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Weed, Hate, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014

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• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Drinking, Beer, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89

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• There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Doctors

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.38, Nayika Publishing

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• But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

  David Gest

  Running, Childhood, Demon

  "Love on the rocks". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

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• I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.

  Jerry Falwell

  Age, Lots Of Friends, Used

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• No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

  William Lyon Mackenzie

  War, Ethos, Effort

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• I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

  Koren Zailckas

  Tonight, Littles, Moderation

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• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Water

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• If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

  John Dingell

  Gun, Today, Groups

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• It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

  David Bowie

  Addiction, Long, Drug

  "Q&A with David Bowie: The man who fell ... then got up again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, www.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

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• The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Grief, Heart, Beer

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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• A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

  Roger Mahony

  Healing, Drug, Church

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• My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

  Gregory Hines

  Dream, Anger, Character

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• The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

  Gerald McRaney

  Drug, Abuse, Trying

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• Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Law, Prohibition

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• In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Athlete, Reality, Drug

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• Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

  Martin Scorsese

  Class, People, Working Class

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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