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Quotes About Alcohol

According to Dr Bouget, a nutritionist at the Bichat Hospital in Paris, the difference in diets between French and English women goes back tot he industrial revolution. 'The English working in the factories quickly lost touch with fundamentals such as fruit, and vegetables that are so central to the French diet even today,' he says. 'England changed its habits very quickly and became a fast-food nation, eating chips and drinking too much alcohol.
~ Helena Frith Powell
I drink to make other people more interesting.
~ Hemingway, Ernest
Work, whiskey, and cards were life.
~ Henry Adams
Whisky was almost universally used.
~ Henry Ketcham
So clumsy, yet her dinner parties were splendid, prepared at unbelievable speed. She hated to cook. Chewing gum, cigarettes, candy, drugs, alcohol, and taxicabs took her from Monday to Friday.
~ Leonard Michaels
Butterflies were like alcohol. The heat of a good wine in a burnt orange butterfly. The cool swallow of rare ship-bought vodka in clear, white and blue beauties.
~ Leone Ross
He had heard Auntie talk about the veterans - drunk all the time, she said. But he knew why. it was something the old people could not understand. Liquor was medicine for the anger that made them hurt, for the pain of the loss, medicine for tight bellies and choked-up throats.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Their mouths were wet and soured with beer, and when they pushed themselves down on her, they felt small and soft between her thighs. She stared at the stains on the ceiling, and waited until they gave up or fell asleep, and then she rolled out from under them.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Truth is a substance soluble in lichen vodka.
~ Lev Grossman
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
~ levant oscar
I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.
~ Thomas Jordan Jarvis
I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
~ Mark E. Smith
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
~ Romano Prodi
Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.
~ Jay McInerney
Nu v? mulÅ£umiÅ£i cu acele întâlniri în timpul c?rora daÅ£i pe gât tot felul de alcooluri,f?r? s? v? spuneÅ£i nimic.
~ Jean Cocteau
But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don't know how people live when they know exactly what's going to happen to them each day.
~ Jean Rhys
You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
~ Alain de Botton
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.
~ Barry Hannah
Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.
~ Stewart Lee
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.
~ Betty Ford
Attention to diet, exercise, avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, ending smoking, protecting our skin from the sun and avoiding stress are important to live healthier lives, with lower cancer risk.
~ Margaret Cuomo
We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be no alcohol left in it.
~ Neneh Cherry
As a young founder in high-stress situations, I often used alcohol to escape facing things. I've struggled with this for a long time, and while I think I've gotten better over time, I believe that this is the last thing preventing me from actualizing my 100 percent conscious self.
~ Justin Kan
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King