Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Squire, John

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

Farquhar, George

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, Irish

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Schefer, L.

12.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Kerr, Jean

14.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

15.

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

16.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

17.

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

Rabelais, Francois

18.

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

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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

Lee, Robert E.

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

25.

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

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

30.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

36.

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.

37.

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

Herbert, George

38.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

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

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Barthes, Roland

48.

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

Bunuel, Luis

49.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

50.

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