According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
--Xavier Becerra – American Politician Born 1958

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.
--Marguerite Duras – French Novelist 1914-1996

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
--Sammy Davis, Jr. – American  Entertainer 1925-1990

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
--Marguerite Duras – French Novelist 1914-1996

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 – American Writer 1888-1959

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
--Finley Peter Dunne - American Journalist 1867-1936

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
--George Bernard Shaw – Irish Dramatist 1856-1950

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
--Frank Sinatra – American Musician – 1915-1998

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 – American First Lady 1918-2011

But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.
--Jim Coleman – American Actor Born 1961

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.
--Jack Herer – American Activist Born 1939

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
--Bob Marley - Jamaican Musician 1945-1981

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
--Matt Groening – American Cartoonist Born 1954

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
--Thomas J. Jackson – American Soldier 1824-1863

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.
--Kim Kardashian – American Celebrity Born 1980

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.
--Harvey Martin – American Athlete 1950-2001

I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.
--Paris Hilton – American Celebrity Born 1981

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.
--Peter Steele – American Musician Born 1962⁶