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Quotes About Alcohol

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
AMMOS FYODOROVICH No, it's impossible to drive it out: he says his nanny hurt him as a child, and ever since then he's given off a whiff of vodka.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Nel mio paese, la vodka non porta alcuna gioia. Porta abbruttimento, rimorso, depressione. Distrugge ogni cosa.
~ Unknown
Indeed, sometimes, if he was sufficiently shitfaced, Edward would even refer to me as Daddy.
~ Unknown
Fakir fukaran?n hayat?n? anlatan zengin yazarlar?m?za gece kulüplerinde içtikleri viskileri zehir oluyor. Zengin tak?m?n?n hayat?n? gözlerimizin önüne sermeye çal??an meteliksiz yazarlar?m?z da asl?nda ?u fakir milleti dü?ündükleri için, küçük meyhanelerinde a??z tad?yla içemiyorlar.
~ Unknown
Midem yan?yor: içkiden kurtar?lacak ilk mide. Yang?ndan kurtar?lacak ilk mide. Benim midem. Benim kalbim.
~ Unknown
think alcohol is worse than other wares? People need to drink, life is hard!
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I envy people who drink—at least they know what to blame everything on.
~ Oscar Levant
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
~ Ozzy Osbourne
The funny thing about getting married in America was that we needed to get a blood test before they'd give us a licence. I wouldn't have been surprised if the bloke from the lab had called back and said, 'Mr Osbourne, we appear to have found some blood in your alcohol.'
~ Ozzy Osbourne
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
a qué se dedica el muerto? —Se dedicaba al pedo ajeno. Era dueño de la concesión de la Modelo en el municipio. Pal velorio hubo cerveza gratis para todos.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
~ Pamela Dean
You can go into Arcadia and get anybody you want killed for two shots of likker.
~ Unknown
Bye Bye , Father,' I said as the confessional door clicked shut behind me, 'Ah's' eyes following me, wondering, I suppose, what He'd been drinking the day he went and made a twilight zone of a disaster like me.
~ Unknown
Them that drinks bottles ruin the look of the shelves but draught is a different story—you never see the barrel going down.
~ Unknown
For the last few hours I could feel myself growing less drunk and more hungover by slow degrees. I'd never been awake through the entire process before, and it was not pleasant.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
In a normal bar, I would say tip the bartender and people would give me money. Here, I say tip the bartender and someone tries to knock me over. -John Murphy, Bartender at
~ Unknown
One study involved an analysis of the effects of small doses of alcohol, known for its ability to reduce inhibition, on pronunciation. Study participants who drank small amounts of alcohol did better on pronunciation tests than those who did not drink any.
~ Unknown
Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?
~ Patton Oswalt
I can't remember everything we talked about, but the beginning of that conversation is a lot clearer to me than the end. By the time we came to the last half hour or forty-five minutes, there was so much bourbon in my system that I was actually seeing double. This had never happened to me before, and I had no idea how to bring the world back into focus.
~ Paul Auster
One beer too many, and a verbal dispute suddenly and unexpectedly explodes into a punching match. Such things happen every night in bars, pubs, and cafés all across the world, but the bloody noses and aching jaws that generally follow from these dustups in Canada, Norway, or France often turn out to be gunshot wounds in the United States.
~ Paul Auster