Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Behan, Brendan F.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

14.

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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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

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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.

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

19.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Lee, Robert E.

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

25.

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.

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

28.

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

Lee, Robert E.

29.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Fielding, Henry

33.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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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''

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

39.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

40.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Havner, Vance

43.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

47.

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

48.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

49.

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

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand