Top 100 Quotes About Alcohol

#1. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.

Laura Esquivel

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#2. With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls

Allen Ginsberg

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#3. How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work ... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.

Pope Francis

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#4. My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

Algernon Blackwood

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#5. He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Groucho Marx

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#6. Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Steve Martin

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#7. A substantial daily intake of alcohol was the perfect way to stay in shape.

Simon Napier-Bell

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#8. It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.

Warren Eyster

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#9. You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.

Tyson Beckford

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#10. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

Frederick Lenz

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#11. It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.

Chris Prentiss

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#12. I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

Johnny Depp

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#13. There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.

TyDi

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#14. For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

Betty Ford

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#15. I'm happy I found an apartment where outside the window is the wide expanse of a roof. That feeling of the breeze, the alchemy of the cigarettes and the alcohol, those together are like a wormhole furrowed through my brain.

Rob Hart

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#16. This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content.

Graeme Simsion

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#17. It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night.

Leila Sales

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#18. To alcohol! The cause of ... and solution to ... all of life's problems

Matt Groening

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#19. [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants
neither alcohol nor meat
are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

Angela Carter

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#20. I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

Harvey Martin

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#21. 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

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#22. The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.

Margaret Atwood

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#23. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.

Marilyn Manson

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#24. Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

Jon Ronson

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#25. Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#26. I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.

Ozzy Osbourne

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#27. No pills gonna cure my ill.

Robert Palmer

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#28. We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.

CrimethInc.

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#29. Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

E.B. White

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#30. Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.

Coluche

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#31. Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

N. F. Simpson

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#32. I soaked up the drink and it, in return, absorbed me.

Martin Pond

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#33. Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.

Michel Templet

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#34. Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Edward Abbey

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#35. That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

Richard Matheson

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#36. It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

Lindsay Lohan

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#37. There's no self-expression or joy in these joints
no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.

Caitlin Moran

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#38. The words 'drink me' come to mind. Anyone besides me up for some heavy alcohol consumption?

Elle Lothlorien

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#39. Drink my friends. You can never drink too much alcohol when you have drunk too much sorrow. - Peter Kotara.

Ray Anyasi

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#40. All government, without exception, conceal from the people everything that might further their emancipation, and encourage all that degrades and demoralizes them: all manner of amusements of the senses, even physical means of stupefaction, such as tabacco and alcohol.

Leo Tolstoy

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#41. Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

Maureen Forrester

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#42. But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

Aldous Huxley

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#43. I can walk the line, if it ain't too straight.

Joe Diffie

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#44. A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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#45. I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Tom Waits

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#46. Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

Frank Stock

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#47. I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Anthony Jeselnik

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#48. Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.

"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree

Hanns Heinz Ewers

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#49. My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

Mike Love

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#50. Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Griffith Edwards

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#51. Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

Mitch Hedberg

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#52. All of our panelists are deeply engaged in the topics at hand, so that leaves me free to convene a little dinner party, sans alcohol, and invite the rest of America to listen in.

Gwen Ifill

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#53. God was bored with the humans, so he invented alcohol.

John Kenney

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#54. I predicted that if control of drugs were administered by law enforcement agencies, the result would be a black market more irrational and widespread than that of alcohol prohibition and the growth of enormous police-state repressive bureaucracy. And who, indeed, wanted that?

Timothy Leary

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#55. Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

Joni Mitchell

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#56. Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!

Gloria Gaynor

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#57. I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Stewart Stafford

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#58. When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

Ron Paul

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#59. 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

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#60. But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Jack Herer

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#61. Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.

Douglas Adams

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#62. If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions.

Doug Stanhope

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#63. Like most bad ideas, it started with alcohol.

Cy Wyss

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#64. Tighten my headband for an extra rush.

Frank Zappa

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#65. I stopped rowing for a moment to glug down some water, but it was warm, tasted of plastic, and failed to refresh. I yearned for an ice-cold drink - preferably one with bubbles and alcohol in it.

Roz Savage

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#66. Is that all you bought?" His eyes shot to the left. "Um." I clenched my teeth. "What else?" "A Super Mega Juicer," he said quickly. "But, Sabina, seriously that juicer is a miracle machine." "I'm a vampire, Giguhl. The only liquids I drink are blood and alcohol. I don't do juice.

Jaye Wells

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#67. Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

Frank Zappa

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#68. A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer

Erin Bowman

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#69. My choices were either too much alcohol or a whirl with my vibrator, and I was damned if I'd have a battery-provided orgasm starring Dark and Dangerous.

Sylvia Day

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#70. That's what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn't worry - poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow

Anne Sexton

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#71. Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

Christopher Rice

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#72. Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Stephen King

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#73. First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.

The Notorious B.I.G.

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#74. I live on shameless flattery ... and vodka ... but the two usually go hand in hand.

Vicktor Alexander

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#75. I am not your victim because you are not a predator any more than a bottle of scotch stalks an alcoholic.

Sue William Silverman

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#76. [As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

Sam Branson

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#77. I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.

David Levithan

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#78. There was a sound in their voices which suggested rum.

Robert Louis Sevenson

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#79. Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

James Madison

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#80. Why does a gesture, a walk, stir your blood? What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

Anais Nin

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#81. A sign that a person could do something different ... that they could be hooked by a drug more wild than alcohol.

Lucy Christopher

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#82. If I'm using drugs and alcohol, it means that I've given up on my fullest potential.

Macklemore

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#83. I'm not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it's not sweet enough for my sweet tooth.

Dawn French

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#84. I'm drowning in whiskey river.

Willie Nelson

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#85. Escape is the byword - forwards, backwards, or sideways - into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

Peter Marshall

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#86. I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

Meredith Brooks

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#87. We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

Pascal Bruckner

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#88. Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James Francis

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#89. With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.

Italo Calvino

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#90. Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.

Big Pun

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#91. From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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#92. They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that's used for purposes of cataracts?

Snoop Dogg

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#93. God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!

Robert A. Heinlein

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#94. Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!

Malcolm Lowry

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#95. He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.

Filippo Bologna

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#96. I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.

George Carlin

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#97. I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.

Elton John

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#98. Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

Burt Reynolds

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#99. All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.

Monique Truong

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#100. Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

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