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

1.

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

2.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

3.

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

Rabelais, Francois

4.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

5.

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

Herbert, George

6.

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''

7.

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

Bunuel, Luis

8.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

9.

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

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

11.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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.

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, George

19.

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

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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

22.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

25.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

26.

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

27.

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

Squire, John

28.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

29.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

Yeats, William Butler

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

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

Kerr, Jean

37.

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

Watson, Sir William

38.

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

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

41.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

45.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

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

Fields, W. C.

48.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.