Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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I drink to make other people interesting.

13.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

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.

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Epictetus

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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

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

Herbert, George

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Hemingway, Ernest

31.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

32.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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

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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

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Bible

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lee, Robert E.

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.