Alcohol And Alcoholism

(122 votes)   The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(121 votes)   They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

L. Schefer

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(117 votes)   Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

John Gay
1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet

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(110 votes)   I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(110 votes)   It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(110 votes)   No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!

Eliza ''Mother'' Stewart

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(109 votes)   It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator

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(107 votes)   Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(107 votes)   Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(107 votes)   Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(106 votes)   Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A. E. Housman
1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar

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(105 votes)   There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

The Koran
c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible

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(102 votes)   I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(102 votes)   It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(99 votes)   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!

Edward Rowland Sill

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