Alcohol Quotes
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw -
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
Abraham Lincoln
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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.
D. H. Lawrence -
If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.
Carl Hart -
I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.
Jessie J -
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.
Ernest Gellner -
The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.
William H. Gass -
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
Harry Houdini
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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 -
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
Willa Cather -
Hopefully we are giving a message to people that this kind of conduct, partys, serving alcohol to minors, things like that, will be investigated thoroughly, ... If appropriate, charges will be filed against those individuals.
Bob Larson -
Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley -
Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.
Bill Murray -
Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.
Jimmy Buffett -
Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.
Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci -
The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks -
From a very young age, my father put a lot of fear in me and it worked. I think it's important for children to have fear. I never was curious about drugs or alcohol. I was born in 1960 and back then the older kids were smoking pot. I wasn't interested in that ever and I always had this thing in me, for some reason, that if God was kind enough to give me a healthy body and mind, I was not going to screw it up.
Scott Vincent James Baio -
I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.
Evan Dando -
Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.
William Duncan Silkworth -
A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits are bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.
Bob Marley -
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
Queen Victoria -
I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.
Johnny Depp