Alcohol Quotes - Page 11

Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun and when the final verdict is rendered, it will appear that tobacco is evil and only evil; that as a drug it is far more deadly than alcohol, killing in a dose a thousand times smaller, and that it does not possess a single one of the quasi merits of alcohol.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

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

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

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

I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.