For God’s sake, open the pubs again before we all become alcoholics. – The Irish Times Letter writer’s plea as alcohol sales rise during coronavirus shotdown.
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby. Chapter 4, Jordan Baker on Daisy Buchanan.
No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 8. Muriel the white goat, reading the Seven Commandments, spots another of of them that the animals had remembered wrong. But two words have been added to the end of the First Commandment, to justify the gluttonous pigs drinking Jones’s case of whisky.
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. – Harry Houdini
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. – George Montgomery
My nan tells me to eat her fish balls and not drink alcohol. I’d rather have the fish balls. – Jess Glynne
There’s nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It’s bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores. – Ike Barinholtz
I’m glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco… I’ve buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol. – Jerry Falwell
But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions. – Jack Herer
When we drink a cup of coffee or spoon heated chicken noodle soup or chili out of a Styrofoam cup, we are also taking in small doses of chemicals that leach from the container. Heat activates this transfer, as does oil, acids and alcohol. – Chuck Norris
Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it’s something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it’s just having company to yack at. – Charles Stross
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can’t abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol. – Carre Otis
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, ‘What will you have to drink? Oh that’s right you don’t drink.’ Just speak up and say, ‘Of course I drink. But I just don’t drink alcohol.’ – Betty Ford
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not. – Betty Ford
My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card. – Algernon Blackwood
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet. – Adam Gopnik
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that’s what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn’t eat strawberries. And that made sense to me. – Betty Ford
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you. – Dick Gregory
You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally. – Dr. Dre
I don’t like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it’s important I take mushrooms and acid. They’re certainly not addictive, so I can’t rule that out. – Evan Dando
I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I’m 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn’t matter. – Dak Prescott
Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn’t have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol. – Charlie Ergen
I’m not a big drinking person and hardly ever have alcohol. Perhaps it’s not sweet enough for my sweet tooth. – Dawn French
