Alcohol Sayings & Quotes
These alcohol sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - P. J. O'Rourke
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Ernest Hemingway
I have made an important discovery, that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. - Oscar Wilde
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. - Ovid
Homelessness is not just an isolated social evil. It is the catalyst and the breeding ground for other problems such as marriage difficulties and family breakup, stress, unemployment and alcoholism. - Eva Evelyn Burrows
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. - William Seward Burroughs
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. - Samuel Butler
Alcohol is like love: the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you just take the girls clothes off. - Samuel Butler
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. - Marguerite Duras
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. - James F. Byrnes
The chill Miss Trent has her men frustrated to a point at which a mortal male would smack her little mouth, so smooth, so firm, so free of nicotine, alcohol and emotion. - James Thurber
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. [The Simpsons] - Matt Groening
People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him. - Art Buchwald
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. - Sir Winston Churchill
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. - William James
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. - Marguerite Duras
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. - Jean Cocteau
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. - Samuel Johnson
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. - Robert Frost
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. - Marguerite Duras
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. - Simone Weil
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. - Carl Gustav Jung
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If were looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer