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Alcohol Quotes - Page 2

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.59, Open Road Media

I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

"Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee". Book by John William Jones, 1874.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

"Old Divides Plague Bosnia" by Christine Spolar, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 14, 2007.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Quoted by William Jones in The Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee, Soldier and Man p. 443

Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.198, University of Virginia Press

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt