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Category: Health and Alcohol

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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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Human

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

Gustave Flaubert, "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Other categories: Love

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

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Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Life and Death

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

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Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Peace and War

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

Lee Simonson

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Woman and Man

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

Charlie Chaplin

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

George Gordon Byron, "Conversations"

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Henry Louis Mencken, "Prejudices"

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Human

22. "Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca the Younger, "Epistulae ad Lucilium"

Other categories: Normality and Madness

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, "Gooseberries"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Love

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

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Other categories: Various

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

Cindy Gardner

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Youth and Age

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

Diana Trilling

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Art and Culture

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

Anthony Trollope, "The Belton Estate"

Other categories: Richness and Money

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

Rita Rudner

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

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

Alexander Woollcott

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Richness and Money

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

Swedish proverb

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Prue Leith

Other categories: Youth and Age

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

Russian proverb

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Life and Death

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

Oscar Wilde

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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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