Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Havner, Vance

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Schefer, L.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Bunuel, Luis

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

15.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

16.

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

17.

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

Squire, John

18.

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.

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

27.

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

Yeats, William Butler

28.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Havner, Vance

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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''

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.