Alcohol Quotes - Page 32

• Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Hurt, People, Drug

  "Ziggy Marley: Why Marijuana Should Be Legal". Interview with Ian Drew, www.usmagazine.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself

  Amit Abraham

  Doe, Problem, Solve

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• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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• I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.

  James Packer

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• Tai chi is the one exercise that can universally help solve our growing health crisis. It has stood the test of thousands of years. We have a generation of baby boomers with increasing health problems; old people who are sick, in pain, fearful, and cranky; a middle class that is increasingly incapable of affording most of the drugs that are prescribed for their ailments; children that are flaccid, diabetic and asthmatic. People of all ages are addicted to drugs, alcohol, sugar, cigarettes, and caffeine. Stress follows almost everyone like a shadow.

  Bruce Frantzis

  Baby, Pain, Children

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• Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

  E. B. White

  Scotch, Bars, Months

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• Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Cooking, Style, Islam

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 29, 2014

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• There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

  Havelock Ellis

  Civilization, Poison, Tests

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• The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hangover, Drunk, Way

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• Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong.

  William Maginn

  People, Drink, Should

  William Maginn (1885). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”

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• "Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?"

  Robertson Davies

  Discovery, Civilization, Two

  "The Cornish Trilogy".

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• Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Romance, Should, Enjoyed

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• The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

  Alan Bennett

  Dad, Journey, Weather

  Alan Bennett (2009). “A A Life Like Other People's”, p.80, Faber & Faber

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• When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others.

  John Templeton

  Blessing, Helping Others, People

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• We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find peace and happiness in drugs, alcohol, and sensual excitement. And it doesn't work. If we desire peace, the first place to look is within ourselves. Peace isn't an external condition as much as an internal context.

  John Templeton

  Peace, People, Drug

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• I propose to provide proof... that just as always an alcoholic ferment, the yeast of beer, is found where sugar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid, so always a special ferment, a lactic yeast, is found where sugar is transformed into lactic acid. And, furthermore, when any plastic nitrogenated substance is able to transform sugar into that acid, the reason is that it is a suitable nutrient for the growth of the [lactic] ferment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beer, Growth, Special

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• In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Real, Player

  "Smoking Barthez ignores Ferguson" by David Barnes, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves.

  George Vaillant

  Stars, Lying, Hard Work

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• Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

  Adam Gopnik

  Father, Writing, Helpful

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• A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

  Ludacris

  Dream, Eye, Men

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• A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

  Joni Mitchell

  Light, Drug, Shadow

  Song: Down to You, Album: Court and Spark

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• A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

  Marilyn Manson

  Drug, Dumb, Pills

  Song: Coma White, Album: Mechanical Animals

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• A woman warm and willing is what I'm looking for, cause the whiskey ain't working anymore.

  Travis Tritt

  Drug, Causes, Whiskey

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• Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

  Joni Mitchell

  Gun, Laughing, Drug

  Song: Blue on Blue

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• And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

  Elton John

  Beer, Drug, Drugs And Alcohol

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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