Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

- Aldrich, Henry

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Fielding, Henry

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

10.

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

Watson, Sir William

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

13.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

14.

I drink to make other people interesting.

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Herbert, George

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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

24.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

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

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

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

34.

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.

Cobb, Irvin S.

35.

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!

Stewart, Eliza ''Mother''

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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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

Schefer, L.

41.

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.

Proverb, Irish

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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

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

45.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

46.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Aldrich, Henry

48.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver