Best Alcohol Wisdom
1156 Alcohol quotes by 716 unique authors
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In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to…
— Dave Barry
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After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
— Dave Barry
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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But…
— Mark Twain
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is…
— Ovid
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It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick…
— Robin Williams
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.
— Douglas Adams
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Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.
— John Ciardi
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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised…
— Thomas de Quincey
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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
— Timothy Leary
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
— Benjamin Franklin
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As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different…
— Barack Obama
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I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
— W.C. Fields
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Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol…
— Nick Offerman
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Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and…
— Bill Hicks
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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's…
— William S. Burroughs
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I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just…
— Pat Robertson
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The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the drugs…
— Ron Paul
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
— John Donne
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A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.
— Daniel Amen
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If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended…
— Euripides
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If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.
— Luis Bunuel
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An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards,…
— Byron Katie
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