Alcohol Quotations | Page 2

'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

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.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

The other side of that picture is that with drugs and alcohol that cause them to act in a different manner than they probably would, ... We know we've got meth all over the place.

We believe that these people would just contact these girls. They would look for a wayward girl on the street, possibly down and out. They would play into those insecurities. They would bring them back to this residence, ply them with alcohol ? and then eventually bring them in and train them in the craft of prostitution.

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway,

After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.

I would never have discovered alcohol.

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

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.

The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

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.

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

That's what my perfume would smell like, margarita and vodka.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is not my fault. But he sobering truth is that if I step onto the path of self-destruction, I know I will never come back.

I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed.

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of feel a little bit done with it. There are other things to talk about.

Whoever I had become had to die.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

If I have a near-beer, I’m near beer. And if I’m near beer, I’m close to tequila. And if I’m close to tequila, I’m adjacent to cocaine.

In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is a major one. I stay out of that, because it is a waste of my time. I always remember where I came from and to never change who I am - I stick to my morals, and I do not let anyone pressure me into doing things that I do not want to.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

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.

Eat your alcohol, or you won't get nonconsensual sex!

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.

What we know from the brain research is that kids and alcohol don't mix. It impacts their frontal lobe so decision making judgment and risk taking increases. So it's a double mix of danger.

We really don't know what his status is. But we certainly could not grant immunity (because of the fall). He certainly consumed and possessed alcohol that night.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water, ... An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems.

It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

We have a problem in our society when we've got this number of individuals that continue to consume large amounts of alcohol and then lose control of their common senses and good judgment and act out in these ways,

I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.

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.

Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.

Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

If ur going to have a war on drugs, have them against ALL drugs, including alcohol, the number one offender.

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

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

Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol.

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

I was blessed that I got married early and had a good wife. That sort of kept me straight. Probably I would have been like Charlie Parker, you know, involved in drugs or alcohol or something like that if I hadn't had this stability.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

Champagne offers a minimum of alcohol and a maximum of companionship.

We're looking at moving out of the mental health (program) piece at the high school and offering a more comprehensive social work, which will be working with the parents as well as doing all the counseling for the drug and alcohol abuse.

Legislators are trying to tell marketers they can't advertise sex, alcohol and tobacco to youngsters online just as they can't on TV or in print.

Separation and divorce can have adverse effects on the health and well-being of children and adults. Past research has shown that divorce is associated with higher rates of mortality, more health problems, and more risky behaviors such as increased alcohol use.

Sgt. Vick was an honorable man, but heroes are people and people make mistakes. Sgt. Vick had a lapse of judgment to allow himself to get to a .20 blood alcohol level.

Most of the time when kids get in trouble, alcohol is involved. A child who starts drinking at age 15 is four times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than a child who waits until 21.

Millie desperately wants to be president but never wins the election. Ginger Breadhouse who is Miss Perfect beats her out every time, ... On the outside Millie acts very secure, but on the inside she is a mess - she has an alcohol problem and cant understand why they wont allow alcohol on the (library) premises.

One of our goals is to provide young girls with character-building life skills that can help them avoid risky adolescent behaviors, such as drug or alcohol use, early sexual activity and eating disorders.

Now we have good, strong data to say to alcohol companies that we need to get rid of milk drinks and that vodka drinks look risky.

NYU is a safe environment in one of the safest neighborhoods in the safest large city in the country. The university has been taking a more vigorous approach toward alcohol and substance abuse.