Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fields, W. C.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Epictetus

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Selden, John

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fields, W. C.

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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''

12.

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

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

18.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

19.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Lee, Robert E.

22.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

23.

I drink to make other people interesting.

24.

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

Kerr, Jean

25.

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

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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

Squire, John

29.

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

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

32.

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

Watson, Sir William

33.

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

34.

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

Bunuel, Luis

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

40.

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

Yeats, William Butler

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

45.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.

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

48.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.