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title: "1,953 Alcohol Quotes by 1,306 authors"
description: "Quotes about Alcohol explore self‑harm, societal effects, and the limits of drinking as comfort."
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> [“I write better with alcohol.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-d-starrling/i-write-better-with-alcohol/)

A.D. Starrling

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> [I under estimate that cheap wine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simphiwe/i-under-estimate-that-cheap-wine/)

[Simphiwe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simphiwe/)

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> [Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/protocol-alcohol-and-geritol/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

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> [VERBAL: Able to whine in words](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikhil-saluja/verbal-able-to-whine-in-words/)

[Nikhil Saluja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikhil-saluja/)

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> [Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lyly/long-quaffing-maketh-a-short-lyfe/)

[John Lyly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lyly/)

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> [“alcohol played the midwife”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-branch-cabell/alcohol-played-the-midwife/)

[James Branch Cabell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-branch-cabell/)

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> [No pills gonna cure my ill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-palmer/no-pills-gonna-cure-my-ill/)

[Robert Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-palmer/)

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> [Alcohol goes in, truth comes out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/alcohol-goes-in-truth-comes-out/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [My twitter timeline is way more impressive than my real life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikhil-saluja/my-twitter-timeline-is-way-more-impressive-than-my-real-life/)

[Nikhil Saluja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikhil-saluja/)

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> [And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elton-john/and-it-s-one-more-beer-and-i-don-t-hear-you-any-more/)

[Elton John](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elton-john/)

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> [If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-thorogood/if-you-don-t-start-drinking-i-m-gonna-leave/)

[George Thorogood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-thorogood/)

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> [Vodka can be more effective than the most advanced lie detector...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milana-may/vodka-can-be-more-effective-than-the-most-advanced-lie-detector/)

[Milana May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milana-may/)

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> [I didn't go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirsten-dunst/i-didn-t-go-to-cirque-lodge-for-alcohol-abuse-or-drug-abuse/)

[Kirsten Dunst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirsten-dunst/)

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> [Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-marley/herb-is-the-healing-of-a-nation-alcohol-is-the-destruction/)

[Bob Marley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-marley/)

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> [I still think that working hard is lame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikhil-saluja/i-still-think-that-working-hard-is-lame/)

[Nikhil Saluja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikhil-saluja/)

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> [I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-jones/i-know-for-one-thing-that-alcohol-will-have-no-more-part-in-my-life/)

[Sharon Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-jones/)

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> [Sometimes I find my head spinning. Not because of alcohol, but because of my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lady-gaga/sometimes-i-find-my-head-spinning-not-because-of-alcohol-but-because/)

[Lady Gaga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lady-gaga/)

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> [Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-wister/said-aristotle-unto-plato-have-another-sweet-potato-said-plato-unto/)

[Owen Wister](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-wister/)

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> [Listen, I'm not an alcoholic, alcoholics go to meetings. I'm a drunk, we go to parties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/listen-i-m-not-an-alcoholic-alcoholics-go-to-meetings-i-m-a-drunk-we/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-best/in-1969-i-gave-up-women-and-alcohol-and-it-was-the-worst-20-minutes/)

[George Best](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-best/)

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> [Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilson-bryan-key/ice-cubes-sell-more-alcohol-for-the-distilling-industry-than-sexy/)

[Wilson Bryan Key](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilson-bryan-key/)

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> [We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-fogelberg/we-drank-a-toast-to-innocence-we-drank-a-toast-to-now-and-tried-to/)

[Dan Fogelberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-fogelberg/)

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> [My relationship in the past with alcohol has been both good fun and unhealthy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/spencer-matthews/my-relationship-in-the-past-with-alcohol-has-been-both-good-fun-and/)

[Spencer Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/spencer-matthews/)

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> [Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-slick/without-alcohol-i-d-be-richer-by-two-million-dollars-that-went-to-pay/)

[Grace Slick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-slick/)

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> [When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zig-ziglar/when-i-discipline-myself-to-eat-properly-live-morally-exercise/)

[Zig Ziglar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zig-ziglar/)

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> [Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margery-allingham/beware-of-anger-it-is-the-most-difficult-to-remove-of-all-the/)

[Margery Allingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margery-allingham/)

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> [But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/but-this-people-has-deliberately-made-itself-stupid-for-nearly-a/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/there-s-sometimes-a-weird-benefit-to-having-an-alcoholic-violent/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

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> [Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells...any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-e-webb/don-t-you-know-alcohol-kills-brain-cells-any-damn-brain-cell-that-can/)

James E. Webb

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> [The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/the-alcohol-smell-is-on-my-fingers-cold-and-remote-piercing-like-a/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-bashir/a-teenage-taste-of-beer-aside-mitt-romney-does-not-consume-alcohol/)

[Martin Bashir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-bashir/)

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> [“There is nearly universal consensus that we should prohibit selling and serving alcohol to minors because wine, beer, and spirits can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-e-lieberman/there-is-nearly-universal-consensus-that-we-should-prohibit-selling/)

[Daniel E. Lieberman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-e-lieberman/)

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> [“Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catullus/come-boy-and-pour-for-me-a-cup-of-old-falernian-fill-it-up-with-wine-2/)

[Catullus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catullus/)

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> [No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-shay-arthur/no-substance-in-nature-as-far-as-yet-known-has-when-it-reaches-the/)

[Timothy Shay Arthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-shay-arthur/)

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> [I know he did horrible things in the jungle. Things no amount of alcohol or pills could erase. War stains soldiers, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-hopkins/i-know-he-did-horrible-things-in-the-jungle-things-no-amount-of/)

[Ellen Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-hopkins/)

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> [“You know, you own a bar and you don't keep alcohol at home," she said, breathless. "I could have had a shot--it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robyn-carr/you-know-you-own-a-bar-and-you-don-t-keep-alcohol-at-home-she-said/)

[Robyn Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robyn-carr/)

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> [I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherman-alexie/i-write-less-about-alcohol-less-and-less-and-less-you-re-an-addict-so/)

[Sherman Alexie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherman-alexie/)

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> [As a child I was a good boy. Even if I wasn't playing tennis I don't think I'd have done things like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-murray/as-a-child-i-was-a-good-boy-even-if-i-wasn-t-playing-tennis-i-don-t/)

[Andy Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-murray/)

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> [In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/in-general-it-can-be-said-that-no-contemplative-life-is-possible/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-harsh-useful-things-of-the-world-from-pulling-teeth-to-digging/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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                        "text": "“You know, you own a bar and you don't keep alcohol at home,\" she said, breathless. \"I could have had a shot--it sometimes slows labor.\" \"We'll have some on hand for the next one.\" \"You keep talking like that's gonna happen,\" she said. \"How ridiculous.\" \"I think my record speaks for itself. But Mel. I just want to make them, not deliver them.\" \"I hear ya, buddy\"… -Jack and Mel”",
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