Alcohol Quotes

• But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.

  

  Amy Sarig King
  • People
  • Alcohol

• I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Great
  • American
  • Red

• All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • War
  • Smoking

• O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Brain
  • Enemy

• Alcohol-inspired fights … are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Inspired
  • Daily
  • Alcohol

• I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Present

• The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Mind
  • Fool
  • Drug

• L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Exaltation
  • Palate
  • Liquid

• I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • People
  • Up
  • Alcohol

• Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Alcohol
  • Overcome
  • Complication

• When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Ideas
  • Littles
  • Flames

• Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Effort

• 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
  • Hands
  • Drug
  • Alcohol

• Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • People
  • Pain
  • Path

• In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

  

  Leigh Steinberg
  • Reality
  • Violence
  • Professional

• If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Wine
  • Alcohol

• Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Bitterness

• I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • I Think
  • Relationships
  • Addiction

• Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.

  

  Donald Heiney
  • People
  • Courage
  • Alcohol

• I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Career

• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Time
  • American
  • America

• That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Emotions
  • Alcohol
  • Drugs

• Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • World
  • Men
  • Drug

• 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
  • Mind
  • Care
  • Liberty

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