Health and Alcohol

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca the Younger "Epistulae ad Lucilium"

Health and Alcohol

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov "Gooseberries"

Health and Alcohol

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Health and Alcohol

Love

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "Don Quixote"

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Cindy Gardner

Health and Alcohol

Marriage

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Health and Alcohol

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Diana Trilling

Art and Culture

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients."

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

Art and Culture

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anthony Trollope "The Belton Estate"

Health and Alcohol

Richness and Money

Rating: 8.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Rita Rudner

Health and Alcohol

Normality and Madness

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Alice James

Health and Alcohol

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Alexander Woollcott

Health and Alcohol

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"While the doctors consult, the patient dies."

English Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Health and Alcohol

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Swedish Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Prue Leith

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Russian Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

John Updike

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Alvan L. Barach

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Tom Jaine

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

James Thurber "Fables for our Time"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Health and Alcohol

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

John Osborne "Tom Jones"

Health and Alcohol

Human

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Health and Alcohol

History and Nations

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Dylan Thomas

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Drunkenness [...] is temporary suicide."

Bertrand Russell "The Conquest of Happiness"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Health and Alcohol

Pain and Tears

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient."

Cyra McFadden

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The best number for a dinner party is two - myself and a dam' good head waiter."

Nubar Gulbenkian

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."

Aldous Huxley "Eyeless in Gaza"

Health and Alcohol

Human

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more."

Walter Matthau

Health and Alcohol

Richness and Money

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners."

Zora Neale Hurston "Moses Man of the Mountain"

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."

Georg Groddeck "The Book of the It"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

Ingmar Bergman

Health and Alcohol

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Health and Alcohol

Sin and Conscience

Woman and Man

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."

Talmud (Babylonian)

Anger

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

Adelle Davis

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Alice May Brock

Health and Alcohol

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz

Health and Alcohol

Oration and Silence

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."

Samuel Goldwyn

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking."

Dave Barry "The Taming of the Screw"

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."

Oscar Levant

Envy

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A hospital is no place to be sick."

Samuel Goldwyn

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."

Benjamin Franklin

Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)