Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Masson, Thomas L.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Schefer, L.

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

I drink to make other people interesting.

16.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

17.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

19.

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

Bunuel, Luis

20.

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

Herbert, George

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Lee, Robert E.

23.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Squire, John

30.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

31.

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

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

34.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

35.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

38.

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

Kerr, Jean

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Watson, Sir William

49.

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''

50.

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

Epictetus