Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. -
Ernest Hemingway
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. -
Simone Weil
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. -
Dylan Thomas
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
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. -
William Seward Burroughs
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
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
Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. -
Samuel Johnson
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
