Alcohol And Alcoholism

(562 votes)   I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

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

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(527 votes)   I drink to make other people interesting.

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(461 votes)   I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(429 votes)   Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(426 votes)   Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(414 votes)   A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(396 votes)   If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Henry Aldrich
American Editor, Actor

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(393 votes)   I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

George Jean Nathan
1882-1958, American Critic

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(389 votes)   The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said ''Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,'' and it must be so.

Native American Elder

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(385 votes)   There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(380 votes)   I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

John Squire

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(361 votes)   The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(352 votes)   There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(344 votes)   Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

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

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(343 votes)   If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!

Pete Sermond

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