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A collection of quotes on the topic of coffee, wine, water, beer.
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
What the Germans lack, 2; also in The Antichrist, Sec. 60, and Gay Science, Sec. 147
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic.”
Source: Get A Clue
“Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol.”
"Feel Good Hit of the Summer", Rated R (2000)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
“Straight edge means I'm drug free, alcohol free, and better than you.”
Catchphrases
Source: Straight Edge significa che sono libero da droghe, libero dall'alcol e migliore di voi]
“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
Variations of this piece have also been misattributed to Andy Rooney and Woody Allen. The original source is a variation on a piece by Sean Morey. ( "snopes.com: Andy Rooney on Everything", Snopes.com, 2012-09-09 http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney3.asp, )
Misattributed
“In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.”
Reported in Ned Sherrin, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (2008), p. 153.
Tina Turner is a soul survivor http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/141823/Tina-Turner-is-a-soul-survivor, Daily Express, 22th of November 2009
Source: Discovering Buddhism, 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=226w04QMPzQ
Quoted in interview, The Paris Review (Fall 1965), in response to "The visions of drugs and the visions of art don't mix?"
Talking about drugs, quoted in **
Audioslave Era
“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”
Source: I Lived to Tell It All (1996, ebook 2014), Page 205.
“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
“I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Decca Aitkenhead (1 April 2012). " Dictatorship is coming back to the Maldives and democracy is slipping away http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/01/dictatorship-maldives-democracy?newsfeed=true". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2012: Nasheed about the official charges against him in the Maldives.
Source: The Buried Temple (1902), Ch. III: "The Kingdom of Matter", § 5
“I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.”
The Osbournes television show.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/ozzy-osbourne-maddest-moments-10-1837387
Get Em High
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)
As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I?
"The Distracted Public" (1990)
It All Adds Up (1994)
Have I Ever Lied to You? (1968).
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
"Talk on Vegetarianism", as translated simultaneously by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche during the 24th annual Great Kagyu Monlam, Bodhgaya, India (3 January 2007), in Shabkar.org http://www.shabkar.org/download/pdf/Talk_on_Vegetarianism.pdf.
Source: The Buried Temple (1902), Ch. III: "The Kingdom of Matter", § 5
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Source: 1950s, Portraits from Memory and Other Essays (1956), p. 9
Variations of this piece have been misattributed to Andy Rooney, George Carlin, and Woody Allen. The original source is a variation on a piece by Sean Morey. ( "snopes.com: Andy Rooney on Everything", Snopes.com, 2012-09-09 http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney3.asp, )
Misattributed
“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
“I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
No. 97
Apophthegms (1624)
Context: Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
“There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.”
“Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.”
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.”
“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”
Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 25
Source: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
Source: The Last Good Kiss
“To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life's problems”
"I Get a Kick Out of You"
Anything Goes (1934)
Source: The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 49, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Variant: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“Thegot its name when two Polynesian alcoholics got in a fight over some neckwear.”
Source: Brain Droppings
This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible. Hitler used the same attitude to persuade the Germans to subjugate themselves to the "Fatherland."
Source: Good to be King (2004)
Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 227