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Quotes About Alcohol

Drink does not drown Care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The most serious adverse effects of the benzodiazepines occur when other sedative substances, such as alcohol, are taken concurrently. These combinations can result in marked drowsiness, disinhibition, or even respiratory depression. Infrequently, benzodiazepine receptor agonists cause mild cognitive deficits that may impair job performance. Persons taking benzodiazepine receptor agonists should be advised to exercise additional caution when driving or operating dangerous machinery.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
As the ones human beings are extreamly apt to get under the influence of alcohol, and, while so, are very quarrelsome and disorderly, we strictly forbad the selling any liquor to them;
~ Benjamin-Franklin
But when I started playing in bands, everyone would just have a couple beers at rehearsal, at the shows, or whatever, and alcohol is a great equalizer. It's a great way to make friends and interact with people.
~ Nita Strauss
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
~ W. H. Auden
There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
~ Ike Barinholtz
Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.
~ Casey Stengel
And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're women, to say we need to be looked after , I find offensive.
~ Gillian Flynn
The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
~ Gillian Flynn
The world will always need a drink
~ Gillian Flynn
Jackie's words stuck with me: Way things are with your mother, you're better in Chicago. How much more of a sign did I need to leave Wind Gap? I wondered exactly why she and Adora had fallen out. Had to be more than a forgotten greeting card. I made a mental note to drop by Jackie's when she was less looped. If she ever was. Then again, I was hardly the one to frown on a drinker
~ Gillian Flynn
Me apuntaré a uno de esos cruceros de pasarse el día bebiendo —uno que me lleve hasta alta mar pero no requiera identificación—, me beberé un vaso gigante de ginebra con hielo, me tragaré unos somníferos y cuando nadie esté mirando me dejaré caer en silencio por la borda con los bolsillos llenos de piedras a lo Virginia Woolf.
~ Gillian Flynn
Carl just needed to hear the clink of glasses, the glug of a drink being poured. I picked up the phone, shaking a tumbler of ice near the receiver so Carl could imagine his gin.
~ Gillian Flynn
No one ever forgives me for anything," she whimpered, her chin shaking. I wanted to tell her I did, but I didn't. Instead I poured her another drink.
~ Gillian Flynn
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
~ Graham Greene
All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape left, nothing you could touch and say: this is Scobie.
~ Graham Greene
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
~ Graham Greene
Do you think it would be bad for me to have another glass? Vodka has never done anyone any harm.
~ Graham Greene
She steps inside my proffered hand and draws me to her in a one-armed hug that lasts long enough for me to learn that she's been drinking gin without much tonic and that her breasts are not original architecture.
~ Greg Iles
I look at the bottle. I feel so diminished just then that I don't even have the confidence to reach over and pour myself another, let alone smack my sister over the head with it.
~ Gregg Olsen
The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
~ Terry Goodkind
I think alcohol is the worst drug of all. It makes you do things that you would never do or say things that you wouldn't.
~ Rob Ford
I don't think girls realize that alcohol is just the worst for the skin.
~ Carole Radziwill
I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.
~ Ricky Hatton