Alcohol famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.
-- A.S. King -
I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.
-- Aaron Paul -
It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.
-- Abbi Glines -
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.
-- Adam Sandler -
When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.
-- African Spir -
Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.
-- Alan Jackson -
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
-- Alben W. Barkley -
And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
-- Aldous Huxley -
An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself
-- Amit Abraham -
It's 4:58 on Friday afternoon. Do you know where your margarita is?
-- Amy Neftzger -
A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.
-- Andre Simon -
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
-- Anne Lamott -
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
-- Aristotle -
What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
-- Arthur Hopcraft -
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is a major one. I stay out of that, because it is a waste of my time. I always remember where I came from and to never change who I am - I stick to my morals, and I do not let anyone pressure me into doing things that I do not want to.
-- Ashley Benson -
I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.
-- Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne -
There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.
-- Barnabe Rich -
There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
-- Barry Mann -
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...
-- Beatrice Webb -
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.
-- Betty Ford -
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
-- Betty Ford -
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
-- Betty Ford -
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
-- Betty Ford -
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
-- Betty Ford -
I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness, Now what used to be a happy home done turned into some bad sh!t
-- Big Boi -
Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.
-- Big Pun -
Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.
-- Bill Mollison -
I used alcohol for my panic attacks, to manage stressors.
-- Bill N. Lacy -
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
-- Bill W. -
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
-- Bill W. -
We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
-- Billy Joel -
There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
-- Billy Joel -
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
-- Bon Scott -
Eat your alcohol, or you won't get nonconsensual sex!
-- Brenda Song -
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 -
Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.
-- Busta Rhymes -
I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.
-- Candy Lightner -
To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.
-- Caroline Knapp -
When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted love kicked into gear. The yes grew louder than the no.
-- Caroline Knapp -
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
-- Carre Otis -
When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path
-- Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez -
You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.
-- Catherine the Great -
Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
-- Charles Dickens -
The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.
-- Charles Stuart Calverley -
You do not need drugs and alcohol to change who you are - You are perfect just the way you are.
-- Chris Herren -
Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
-- Chris Prentiss -
My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and yanked and pulled by weave strings and suffocated by glue. She told me if I didn't straighten up and fly right that she was leaving.
-- Chrisette Michele -
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.
-- Claudia Shear -
I'm a living, breathing example of someone who does the same exact thing, but drugs and alcohol just aren't a part of who I am.
-- CM Punk -
I am STILL better than you. Because I AM drug free, I AM alcohol free, and I’m straightedge.
-- CM Punk -
I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
-- Cole Porter -
I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.
-- Colin Greenwood -
Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.
-- Craig David -
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
-- Craig Ferguson -
If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.
-- Dalai Lama -
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
-- Daniel Baldwin -
Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
-- Daniel Fried -
So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.
-- Daniel Silva -
I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.
-- Darynda Jones -
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
-- Dave Barry -
I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's
-- Dave Dutton -
Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.
-- David Cook -
A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.
-- David Emerald Womeldorff -
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
-- David Gest -
The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.
-- David Letterman -
We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.
-- David Lloyd George -
Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.
-- David Niven -
Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!
-- David Wolfe -
I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.
-- Dawn French -
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
-- Dean Koontz -
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.
-- Dean Martin -
As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.
-- Denis Johnson -
A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.
-- Denise Richards -
We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.
-- Diane Birch -
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
-- Dick Gregory -
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
-- Don Johnson -
I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under my host.
-- Dorothy Parker -
Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.
-- Dorothy Sarnoff -
Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.
-- Doug Stanhope
