Top 100 Quotes About Alcohol
#1. The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors.
Asa Don Brown
#2. Owing to the disabilities of the two major sovereigns, one incapacitated by alcohol and the other by insanity, the result was not what it might have been. Renewed madness was already darkening Charles's mind when he arrived and in the brief intervals when he was lucid, Wenceslas was drunk.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#4. Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
Jack London
#5. Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.
Graham Joyce
#6. Addictive personalities can latch on to anything: drugs, alcohol, sex, people ... what if you become addicted to me?"
"I am already addicted to you, Beatrice. Only you're far more dangerous than cocaine.
Sylvain Reynard
#7. Having rebound sex to cure a heartbreak is like drinking alcohol to cure a hangover.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#8. Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher Hitchens
#9. He's just going to buy alcohol or drugs, you know, Lauren said, which made me sad, because she didn't know that man at all, let alone whether he had a dependency problem.
Matthew Quick
#10. Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
Martin Scorsese
#11. Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
Charles Bukowski
#12. Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.
Margery Allingham
#13. Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive.
Virgil Miller Newton
#14. Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.
John Irving
#15. There are four ways to manage stress. There's drugs, there's alcohol, there's sex, and there's doughnuts. I go with sex and doughnuts. I tried the other two and it wasn't any good. You being in a dry spell, you might have to rely on doughnuts.
Janet Evanovich
#16. There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.
Patrick Bedard
#17. Life is a merciless bully for children born into circumstances of grinding poverty, to unhappy families broken apart by crime, drugs, alcohol. It brutalises the affections, cramps the intellect, destroys aspiration.
Victoria Clayton
#18. I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.
Kurt Vile
#19. Wood was the main source of energy in the world until the eighteen-fifties, and it still could be. Roughly a tenth of the annual growth of all the trees on earth could yield alcohol enough to run everything that now uses coal and petroleum - every airplane, every industry, every automobile.
John McPhee
#20. Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.
Deepak Chopra
#21. I watched as she took a second sip, imagining the alcohol crossing the placental wall, damaging brain cells, reducing our unborn child from a future Einstein to a physicist who would fall just short of taking science to a new level.
Graeme Simsion
#22. 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.
#23. Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking toward Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty to Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But Secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People traveled with them.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.
Christopher Titus
#25. Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race ... Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.
Billy Graham
#26. Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne
#27. There
was never
enough alcohol
to keep my mother warm
in a house
as cold as
t h i s.
- but you kept trying, didn't you?
Amanda Lovelace
#28. Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.
Ted Nugent
#29. Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.
Pittacus Lore
#30. We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.
Mariel Hemingway
#31. If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.
Simon Pegg
#32. It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
Pamela Dean
#33. I used alcohol for my panic attacks, to manage stressors.
Bill N. Lacy
#34. And kissing him is like sucking on alcohol-soaked feet.
Kristin Cast
#35. His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives
especially those he disliked
about which there was a definite element of spreading bait for garden snails.
John McGahern
#36. We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
Dale Archer
#37. They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?
'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir.
Joseph Roth
#38. I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.
Moby
#39. I ordered two Cokes - alcohol was not going to be a good idea - and took them over to our table. "How very gentlemanly," she said. "I just didn't want you to get me one and lace it with sedatives.
Steve McHugh
#40. 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
#41. Too much alcohol hampers people's ability to parent. That's why I've chosen to remain childless.
Kyra Davis
#42. I want my relationship with my future boyfriend to be built on trust, not in alcohol , not in the appearance , and in jealous eyes
Zwaantje Nacion
#43. Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.
David Niven
#44. Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob Marley
#45. When I'm around you, I feel too drunk to speak to you. And I've never even tasted alcohol before, but I'm sure kissing you is what being drunk feels like. If that's the case, I'm already worried for my sobriety because I can see myself becoming addicted to kissing you..
Colleen Hoover
#46. Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.
Tammara Webber
#47. I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.
Chris Carmack
#48. Vicki M. Taylor's "Not Without Anna," is a gripping, hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at the escalating crisis of teen alcohol and drug abuse.
Charlene Austin
Vicki M. Taylor
#50. My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I've never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.
Lawrence Kudlow
#51. If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.
G. Gordon Liddy
#52. I'm a true believer in working hard and partying hard. I'm fortunate to be one of those people who can have just as much fun partying without alcohol.
Richard Branson
#53. Maybe it was the alcohol. Yeah. That's probably what it was. The booze must have mixed with the romance in the air and turned him soft. But then, if that's all it was, why did his stomach sink to the floor at her reaction? Did he really want to marry her? He looked
Natalie K. Martin
#54. Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss
that means to send someone up, make fun of them.
Geraldine Brooks
#55. Energy drinks and alcohol are a dangerous match. Since energy drinks are stimulants and alcohol is a depressant, mixing the two can give the illusion that you're not impaired.
Cary McNeal
#56. Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.
Joan Didion
#58. Alcohol is the motorcycle of beverages. Liver fast, die young.
Jarod Kintz
#59. Religious damage is worse than alcohol damage or drug damage
Sunday Adelaja
#60. Drink up. I get more enjoyable the higher your blood alcohol content gets.
S.A. McAuley
#61. I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.
Mandy Moore
#62. You are dehydrated," I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.
Robert Penn Warren
#63. There are three things that make me want to drink: difficult times, when I want alcohol to either alleviate the pain or allow me to feel it; clear days that make me want to scribble all over the irritating blue sky; and well, waking up in the morning.
Abigail Thomas
#64. You might be a redneck if when you leave your house, you are followed by federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the only thing you worry about is if you can lose them or not.
Jeff Foxworthy
#65. leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express). She
Stephen King
#66. Just like using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain can -- and does -- lead to addiction, using social media to fill the void of relationships, or other needs, often leads to addiction, as well.
Mandy J. Hoffman
#67. You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.
Billy Squier
#68. Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?
Patton Oswalt
#69. 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
#70. Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.
Oliver Bullough
#71. Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Sherwood Boehlert
#72. I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
W.C. Fields
#73. He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.
Joe Queenan
#74. You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.
Raymond Chandler
#75. I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain, it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
Haruki Murakami
#76. Tobacco is the second most dangerous drug available to our culture. Number one is alcohol follow by many pharmacy pills. So no, marijuana is not more dangerous then tobacco.
Steven Machat
#77. 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
#78. An abundance of money, alcohol, or power doesn't change you, it simply reveals who you truly are.
Rob Liano
#79. The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
Bassui Tokusho
#80. 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
#81. I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.
Johnny Depp
#83. That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.
Tucker Max
#84. When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.
Robert Black
#85. Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach.
Dave Franklin
#86. I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.
Gustav Ejstes
#87. So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
#88. You have the upmost amount of energy because you're not just having a cocktail at the end of the night. You're actually not drinking alcohol and you're keeping your body really clean and it's an amazing feeling to be getting out all the toxins.
Colin Farrell
#89. He's got so much drugs and alcohol in him right now that about the only thing I could order him to do and expect a response on would be to smile.
Heather Graham
#90. Of course time doesn't stop for anyone; alcohol just keeps you from feeling it, the way it'll keep a man cozy while he freezes to death.
Tim Kreider
#91. We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.
Josh Tickell
#92. We weren't ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation - why were we so afraid of sex?
Sierra Simone
#93. I was spinning - from the kiss, the alcohol or the lack of air, I wasn't sure, but I knew I needed to pull away if only just to breath.
Melissa Aragon
#94. I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
#95. The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson
#96. Mature men look into the ladies hearts.
Immature ones mention constantly their body parts.
They mentioned sex like they're obsessed.
Enslaved by drugs and alcohol; helpless.
Ricardo Derose
#97. There's rumors in the Twittersphere. If I find out that any of my officer is giving out drug and alcohol I send their ass to prison with a snorkel duct-taped to their mouth and me s***ing down that Snorkel
Ice Cube
#98. Just how many drinks have you had?"
"Not enough," he said, his voice oceans deep.
"Not enough to forget her?"
"There isn't enough alcohol on the planet to make me forget her.
Darynda Jones
#99. I have never even had a sip of alcohol, never have done drugs. The hardest thing I have ever done would be Pepsi.
Dane Cook
#100. of Alcohol - but please, be careful how you tell of them, remember Ovid shivering on the Black Sea shores, wondering how to get back in to one of the Roman villas once again. November
MariJo Moore
