Liquor Quotes - Page 9

• Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

  Robert E. Howard

  This Generation, Generations, Disease

  Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, c. April 1932.

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• My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sex, Sleep, Water

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.218, ibooks

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• Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.

  Neal S. Dow

  Children, War, Rain

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• The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Mystery

  Wilkie Collins (2016). “The Moonstone”, p.208, Wilkie Collins

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• Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

  Alex Chilton

  Years, Waiting, Drug

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• Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible....Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor.

  Morgan Freeman

  Marijuana, Law, Prohibition

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• Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Law, Laughing

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• I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.

  Rand Paul

  Technology, Drones, Liquor Stores

  "Drone warfare politics change in Washington". "All In with Chris Hayes", www.nbcnews.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Belief, Restaurants, Sells

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1722, Random House

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• Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Memories, Heart, Compassion

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• Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It’s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more.

  Tony Hoagland

  Beer, Clothes, Clouds

  Tony Hoagland, “A Color of the Sky”

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• I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?

  Koren Zailckas

  Girl, Father, Party

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• I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

  John Elder Robison

  Drug, Antidepressants

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• Bring me liquor, Bones, fast, to take my foot out of my mouth. Cat to Bones

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Feet, Mouths

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• That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

  Richard Matheson

  Drinking, Alcohol, Delight

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

  Al Capone

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Science, Names, White

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled.

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• A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Justice, Diversity

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment

  Benjamin Rush

  Humorous, Beer, Brewing

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• If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Anger, Wine, Order

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• Whatever you wanna drink girl, pick right now. If you can't hold your liquor, better quit right now.

  Drake

  Girl, Drinking, Humble

  Song: Show Me a Good Time, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beer, Alcohol, Disease

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• No. I think they're the idiot people and I'm the normal person. But I don't really go to parties where...I don't really have drunk friends. My friends are kind of adult; they have a drink. But they hold their liquor. I think it's incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk. It just looks so ridiculous. I find it very degrading. I think, oh, you're really degrading yourself right now, to be this pissed out in public.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, Thinking, Drunk

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• I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Husband, Book, Home

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• Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!

  Ali Shariati

  Party, Drinking, Successful

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