Alcohol Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• With some guys, drugs became a way of life. They went through tremendous personality changes, or they died. Drugs didn't do them any good. In the same way, at certain times in my life, alcohol didn't do me any good. A lot of kids today seem to be taking themselves, their health and their education more seriously, and that's good.

  Greg Noll

  Kids, Personality, Guy

  Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.115, North Atlantic Books

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• A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?

  Martin Bashir

  Teenage, Beer, Taste

  "Bashir: Romney Not Presidential Material Because He Doesn't Drink". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

  James Francis

  Men, Intoxicated

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• I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

  Rima Fakih

  Fun, Having Fun, Needs

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  I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Morning, Mean, Drug

  MTV News Online, 1992.

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• If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

  Macklemore

  Mean, Drug, Given

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• Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

  Graeme Simsion

  Drinking, Risk, Research

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.

  Tommy Chong

  Littles, Acid, Quitting

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• Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

  Glen Duncan

  Sibling, Grateful, Long

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.

  Matthew Polly

  Believe, Blind Spots, Chinese

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• I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

  Ron Willingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Divorce

  Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

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• Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

  Chris Prentiss

  Successful, Drug, Doe

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.110, BookBaby

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• Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Sexy, Ice, Cubes

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