Best 1158 quotes in «alcohol quotes» category

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

Science could never get you to make alcohol and tobacco legal and marijuana illegal. Only racism can do that.

Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

Seems I used to do everything like I was on a mission. If it was alcohol, I wanted to drink till I couldn't see straight. If it was golf, I wanted to beat everybody's brains out. If it was driving, I can get there faster'n you can. It's not anybody's fault, I guess. I was stubborn as hell. I had no direction.

She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college. But I dedicate the book to her because she is the true champion of the family. She kept our family together. She provided us with a roof over our head. She always worked.

Smoke that herb and clear your mind.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Snorting cocaine is like feeding pork to the brain.

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

Some of the morays have held on. When I was in school, I remember asking the question, "Why is it that whenever I walk into a fraternity there's alcohol everywhere and there's no alcohol in a sorority? Why is it that sororities won't allow alcohol, but fraternities do? What is that?" You know, nobody had a really good answer, and that's kind of held on. It's one of the issues that's being examined now - the role of alcohol in sexual assault.

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.

Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.

Success is my drug of choice.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around.

Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.

The best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

That's what my perfume would smell like, margarita and vodka.

The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

The abuse of food, alcohol, or drugs is essentially a material response to a need that isn't really physical at its foundation.. What we are looking for is pure joy rather than mere sensation, or even oblivion of sensation. Addiction is unrecognized spiritual craving.

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.

The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

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.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.