Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

- Barkley, Alben W.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Lee, Robert E.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Mencken, H. L.

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Zappa, Frank

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Duras, Marguerite

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

Schefer, L.

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Johnson, Samuel

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Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.

Washington, Denzel

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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Bunuel, Luis

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Lee, Robert E.

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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Fields, W. C.

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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Churchill, Winston

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I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Fuller, Thomas

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If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!

Sermond, Pete

25.

A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped [drinking], I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now.

Larroquette, John

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I drink to make other people interesting.

27.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Kerr, Jean

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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

Fields, W. C.

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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Johnson, Samuel

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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Rabelais, Francois

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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb, Spanish

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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Masson, Thomas L.

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It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Selden, John

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I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

Squire, John

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Behan, Brendan F.

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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

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A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Temple, Sir William

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At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Sill, Edward Rowland

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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Pepys, Samuel

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Yeats, William Butler

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?