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Alcohol Quotes - Page 12

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman”, p.663, e-artnow

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

"Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

It's a crooked system, but gin straight take the pain away.

Song: Hopeless, Album: Red Light District

I drink to forget I drink.

"Miss Charming's Guide for Hip Bartenders and Wayout Wannabes: Your Ultimate One-Stop Bar and Cocktail Resource". Book by Cheryl Charming, p. 137, 2006.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 49 (The Gentleman in the Small-clothes)