Alcoholics Quotes - Page 5

• In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

  George Ryan

  People, Drug, Majority

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• I require something so horrifically alcoholic that it makes livers tremble with fear and run for their lives when its name is uttered.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Names, Liver

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• Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?

  Ally Carter

  Liquor Stores, Should, Liquor

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Xmas

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

  Oscar Levant

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

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

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• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

  Drinking, Numbers, People

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• I always wake up at the crack of ice.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Ice, Alcohol

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• All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

  Thomas Szasz

  Humor, Intelligent, America

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• People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

  Gloria Gaynor

  Self Esteem, Humor, People

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• Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

  N. F. Simpson

  Drinking, Food, Reality

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• [Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

  Auguste Piccard

  Drinking, Dirty, Science

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• One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

  Nancy Astor

  Time, Educational, Drinking

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• Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of it." An alcoholic's wife might wish her husband would stop drinking...On examination of her beliefs, she may discover she was frightened of not achieving her own goals and actually encouraged the alcoholism so she would not have to face her own failure.

  Seth Roberts

  Husband, Drinking, Ideas

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Drinking, Beer

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• Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

  George Saintsbury

  Alcohol, Soul, Body

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

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• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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• A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Humor, Alcohol

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• Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

  Michael Josephson

  Humor, Eye, Practice

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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, Alcohol

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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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• Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

  Bill W.

  Believe, Humor, Alcohol

  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, Alcohol, Drug

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• I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

  Betty Ford

  Alcohol, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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