{"id":183,"date":"2016-05-12T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:25:06","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Alcohol_and_Alcoholism_119_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=183","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Alcohol and Alcoholism (119 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.<\/div>\n
Thomas Fuller<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped [drinking], I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now.<\/div>\n
John Larroquette<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.<\/div>\n
Joe E. Lewis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.<\/div>\n
Samuel Johnson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.<\/div>\n
H. L. Mencken<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.<\/div>\n
Irvin S. Cobb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A torchlight procession marching down your throat.<\/div>\n
John Louis O'Sullivan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.<\/div>\n
Marguerite Duras<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.<\/div>\n
Marguerite Duras<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.<\/div>\n
Raymond Chandler<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.<\/div>\n
Finley Peter Dunne<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.<\/div>\n
A. E. Housman<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.<\/div>\n
Ernest Hemingway<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.<\/div>\n
Alvan L. Barach<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?<\/div>\n
Sir William Watson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.<\/div>\n
John Milton<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!<\/div>\n
Edward Rowland Sill<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!<\/div>\n
Anonymous<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.<\/div>\n
Jonathan Swift<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.<\/div>\n
Charles Dickens<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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