Alcohol Quotes

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Chesterton

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butle

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Norman Brenne

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

I had it all, and I blew it. shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism.

Mickey Mantle

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is a thing that human beings must avoid.

George Orwell

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Sir Winston Churchill

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson