Alcoholism Quote by Margaret Halsey Download Open image “Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.” — Margaret Halsey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alcoholism Employed Employing Liquor Patterns
I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop. — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“Yes, liquor is the thin white coat of paint you wash over the cracks in your foundation. Makes any rotten house livable for a… — Toby Barlow Copy Share Image
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business,… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things. — William Regal Copy Share Image
It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself. — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
“If you threw Elvis and a scarecrow in a blender, topped the whole thing off with Seagram's 7 and pressed dice, you would make… — Andrea Portes Copy Share Image
The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking,… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“There are various reasons why an individual might habitually consume large quantities of alcohol, but they all effectively boil down to the same thing.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those… — Jim Hamilton Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
