Seneca
“Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.”
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Author Unknown
“When the wine is in, the wit is out.”
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Author Unknown
“To drink responsibly is an oxymoron.”
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Ephesians 5:18
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.”
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Gerard Way
"Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!”
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Oscar Wilde
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
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Rita Rudner
“Not one man in a beer commercial has a beer belly.”
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.”
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Leviticus 10:9
“Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee…”
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Dallin H. Oaks
“Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day.”
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Thomas J. Jackson
“I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.”
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Jim Carrey
“I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.”
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Numbers 6:3
“He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink…”
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Penn Jillette
“I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.”
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Phyllis Diller
“Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.”
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Bertrand Russell
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
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George Gordon
What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Author Unknown
“The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.”
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Thomas Jackson
“I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.”
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
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Friedrich von Schiller
“When the wine goes in, strange things come out.”
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Jean Kerr
“Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.”
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Oscar Levant
“I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.”
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Hermann Helmholtz
“The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.”
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Lady Astor
“One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.”
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Judges 13:4
“Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink…”
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Author Unknown
“It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.”
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Marguerite Duras
“Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.”
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Eneanor Early
Alcohol removes inhibitions – like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: ‘Now bring on that….cat’”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“One of Satan’s sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.”
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Dick Gregory
“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.”
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Author Unknown
“If alcohol kills millions of brain cells I wonder why it has never killed the ones that make me want to drink?”
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Riley M. Lorimer
“When under the influence of alcohol, you lose your ability to reason clearly. Drinking alcohol can lead to cancer, liver disease, and emotional problems.”
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Proverbs 20:1
“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
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Robert Benchley
“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.”
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Mignon McLaughlin
“The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.”
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Milton R. Hunter
“The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.”
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Proverbs 23:21
“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
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Author Unknown
“If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.”
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Billy Sunday
“I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.”
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1 Corinthians 3:17
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
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Marguerite Duras
“Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.”
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Jack Herer
“But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.”
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Carl Jung
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
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Xavier Becerra
“According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.”
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Jeremiah 35:6
“But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever.”
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Samuel Johnson
“This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.”
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1 Corinthians 6:10
“Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
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Robert Burton
“I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.”
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William Shakespeare
“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could lead to the disease called alcoholism, which is humiliating, dangerous, and even deadly...”
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Marguerite Duras
“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.”
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Russell M. Nelson
“There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation’s traffic deaths.”
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Joseph B. Wirthlin
“A good example of satanic influence is in television advertising for alcoholic beverages. Its underlying message seems to be that the sole object of life is to have a good time. This so-called fun-loving time comes to those who drink a certain brand of alcoholic beverage, they say.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
“Stay away from alcohol, my brethren. Never get involved in a so-called beer bust. Do not get entrapped with illegal drugs. They could destroy you. They could make of you a slave, and the cravings that would follow would impoverish you in getting money to buy more drugs to satisfy those cravings.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
“Consider the terrible effects of alcohol. Alcohol-related accidents are the leading cause of death of those under twenty-five. The physical, social, and financial effects of alcohol ruin marriages and family life. By dulling inhibitions, alcohol leads to untold numbers of crimes and moral transgressions. Alcohol is the number one addictive drug in our day
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Lancet Medical Journal
“Heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamine, or crystal meth, were the most lethal to individuals. When considering their wider social effects, alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine were the deadliest. But overall, alcohol outranked all other substances, followed by heroin and crack cocaine. Marijuana, ecstasy and LSD scored far lower.”
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Jack Handey
“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
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Dallin H. Oaks
“The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?”
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