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Alcohol and alcoholism

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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1.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

2.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

4.

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.

Proverb, Irish

5.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Masson, Thomas L.

6.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Johnson, Samuel

7.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

8.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Duras, Marguerite

9.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, George

10.

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

Kerr, Jean

11.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Pepys, Samuel

13.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Barach, Alvan L.

14.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Fields, W. C.

16.

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!

Stewart, Eliza ''Mother''

17.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

18.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

19.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

20.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Havner, Vance

21.

A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped [drinking], I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now.

Larroquette, John

22.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

23.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

24.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Rabelais, Francois

26.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

I drink to make other people interesting.

29.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

30.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!

Sermond, Pete

35.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Bunuel, Luis

36.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

Fields, W. C.

37.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Barkley, Alben W.

38.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Sill, Edward Rowland

39.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Lee, Robert E.

40.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

41.

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

Watson, Sir William

42.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

43.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Aldrich, Henry

44.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Duras, Marguerite

45.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

48.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Shakespeare, William

49.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Fuller, Thomas