Alcohol And Alcoholism

(96 votes)   You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

W. C. Fields
1879-1946, American Actor

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(93 votes)   I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Vance Havner

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(93 votes)   Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

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(90 votes)   I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Joe E. Lewis
American Writer

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(89 votes)   I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(73 votes)   My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Robert E. Lee
1807-1870, American Confederate Army Commander

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(72 votes)   Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(69 votes)   Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Roland Barthes
1915-1980, French Semiologist

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(68 votes)   And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(68 votes)   O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!

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

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(67 votes)   Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Finley Peter Dunne
1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist

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(66 votes)   A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Joe E. Lewis
American Writer

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(66 votes)   I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis
American Writer

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(65 votes)   I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Joe E. Lewis
American Writer

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(64 votes)   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.

John Larroquette
1947-, American Actor

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