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1. "Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life.... The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

Marlon Brando

Quotations about: Art and Culture


2. "The difference between medicine and poison is the dosage."

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3. "Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals."

Pierre De Beaumarchais, "Le Mariage de Figaro"

Quotations about: Human


4. "The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Quotations about: Love


5. "Some people have no respect for age unless it's bottled."

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Quotations about: Youth and Age


6. "Injections ... are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "In Evil Hour"


7. "Never go to a doctor who's office plants have died."

Lazarus Long

Quotations about: Trust


8. "Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."

M.F.K. Fisher, "Vin et Fromage"

Quotations about: Various


9. "I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."

John Mortimer

Quotations about: Life and Death



10. "Psychology - the art of turning stupidity into illness."

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Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Wisdom and Stupidity


11. "Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Richness and Money


12. "War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Peace and War


13. "An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art."

Lee Simonson

Quotations about: Art and Culture


14. "There are more old drunkards than old doctors."

Benjamin Franklin


15. "One cup of wine is good for a woman; two are degrading; three make her wanton; four destroy her sense of shame."

Talmud

Quotations about: Woman and Man


16. "A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

Charlie Chaplin

Quotations about: Human


17. "A candy a day gives the dentist his pay."

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18. "No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers."

Horace, "Epistles"

Quotations about: Art and Culture


19. "Gin-and-water is the source of all my inspiration."

George Gordon Byron, "Conversations"

Quotations about: Art and Culture


20. "I get little enjoyment out of women, more out of alcohol, most out of ideas."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Prejudices"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness -:- Woman and Man


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21. "If you are what you eat and you don't know what you're eating, do you know who you are?"

Dr. Claude Fischler

Quotations about: Human


22. "Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca the Younger, "Epistulae ad Lucilium"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness


23. "Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Gooseberries"

Quotations about: Richness and Money


24. "Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye"

Quotations about: Love


25. "There's no sauce in the world like hunger."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Quotations about: Various


26. "What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."

Cindy Gardner

Quotations about: Marriage


27. "Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

Anthony Burgess

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


28. "Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

Don Marquis

Quotations about: Youth and Age


29. "Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals."

Diana Trilling

Quotations about: Art and Culture


30. "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."

W. C. Fields


31. "Today’s literature: prescriptions written by patients."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Quotations about: Art and Culture



32. "Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour."

Anthony Trollope, "The Belton Estate"

Quotations about: Richness and Money


33. "Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them."

Rita Rudner

Quotations about: Normality and Madness


34. "One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

Alice James

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement


35. "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

Alexander Woollcott

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


36. "While the doctors consult, the patient dies."

English proverb


37. "If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water."

Herman Melville, "Israel Potter"

Quotations about: Richness and Money


38. "Most suicides are committed with a knife and fork."

Swedish proverb

Quotations about: Life and Death


39. "When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex."

Prue Leith

Quotations about: Youth and Age


40. "Small children give you headache; big children heartache."

Russian proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness


41. "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

John Updike


42. "It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth."

George Burns



43. "An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor."

Alvan L. Barach


44. "If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong."

Tom Jaine

Quotations about: Various


45. "Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

James Thurber, "Fables for our Time"


46. "Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Quotations about: Life and Death


47. "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Work and Laziness


48. "It is not true that drink changes a man’s character. It may reveal it more clearly."

John Osborne, "Tom Jones"

Quotations about: Human


49. "Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state - everything is a pretext for a good dinner."

Jean Anouilh, "Cécile"

Quotations about: History and Nations


50. "An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

Dylan Thomas

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