Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Bunuel, Luis

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Lee, Robert E.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Burton, Sir Richard

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

Epictetus

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!

Crowley, Aleister

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Duras, Marguerite

11.

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

Selden, John

12.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

15.

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

16.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

17.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Herbert, George

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Kerr, Jean

22.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

23.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Barthes, Roland

24.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Havner, Vance

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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

27.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

Thurber, James

29.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Rabelais, Francois

33.

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.

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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

Schefer, L.

37.

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

Fields, W. C.

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I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Yeats, William Butler

40.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

41.

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

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

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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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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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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.

Chandler, Raymond

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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.

Duras, Marguerite

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Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise.

Bible

49.

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

50.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with, and it must be so.

Native American Elder