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Alcohol Quotes


"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."


"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third."


"A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up."


"I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal."


"If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all."


"I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out."


"I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful."


"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."


"But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away."


"I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was."


"With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry."


"Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers."


"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity."


"I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk."


"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."


"One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough."


"In Irena's head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears."
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