A Quotes
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“Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain.”
Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)
“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.”
“Alcohol is not the answer to all questions”
“Alcohol is often the last refuge of a beaten people. In that fiery liquid, any honour in defeat vanishes, and, in the eyes of the enemy, they become the pathetic, caricatured wretches they sought to make them from the beginning.”
“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”
“Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.”
“Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.”
Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
“Alcohol is popular, but alcoholics are not.”
“Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“Alcohol is really just the liquid version of Photoshop.”
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
“Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.”
“Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.”
“Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.”
Source: A Handbook of Gastronomy
“Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day.”
“Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.”
Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“Alcohol is the worst thing to mix with anger.”
“Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.”
“Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.”
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.”
“Alcohol makes you greedy
weed gives you peace.”
“Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.”
“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
“Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.”
“ALCOHOL, n. (Arabic al kohl, a paint for the eyes.) The essential principle of all.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.”
“Alcohol removed the chains holding in check my wish for revenge over having to conform to the stupidity of everyday life. Alcohol turned Jekyll into Hyde. But Jekyll was merely a façade. Hyde was there all along. Hyde was hatred for the world. And Jekyll the attempt to hide it.”
Source: The Nihilist
“Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.”
“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
“Alcohol, smoking, God, all these are means for the common human to escape the reality.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.”
Source: Jack London Six Pack
“Alcohol, the drug of choice in professional life, puts us to sleep, but then we wake and can't get back to sleep. 'Do you take a nip of whisky or not? Or do you put up with it? There are penalty clauses to all of these sleep-inducers,' [Former Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown] says. I knew this from medical school. It turns on you in the middle of the night.'”
Source: On Sleep
“Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.”
“Alcohol was my best friend because it never wanted to talk about itself. It was just always there, the mute dog at my heel, gazing up at me, always ready to go on a walk. It took away so much of the pain, including the fact that when I was alone, I was lonely, and that when I was with people, I was lonely, too.”
Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
“Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.”
Source: LITTLE GLORIA
“Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.”
“Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.”
“Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.”
Source: The Book of Salt: A Novel
“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
“Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.”
“Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.”
Source: Notes on a Cellar-Book
“Alcoholic: anybody who drinks more than I do.”
“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the approach’s efficacy, and we have been on the wrong path ever since. Today, almost every treatment center, physician, and court system in the country uses this model. Yet it has one of the worst success rates in all of medicine: between 5 and 10 percent, hardly better than no treatment at all. Most of the expensive, famous rehab centers that base their treatment on the Twelve Steps likewise have offered no evidence for their effectiveness. Most of them don’t even study their own outcomes.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“Alcoholics are always smiling and happy. Their joy runs on a drip system, only theirs comes sip by sip.”
Source: Yet Another New Land