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Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Farquhar, George

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

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

Selden, John

12.

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

13.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

14.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Rabelais, Francois

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

Bunuel, Luis

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Kerr, Jean

21.

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

Schefer, L.

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

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''

28.

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.

29.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

30.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Yeats, William Butler

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

37.

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.

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

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.

40.

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

Squire, John

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Havner, Vance

43.

I drink to make other people interesting.

44.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

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

46.

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

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

49.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

50.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Fields, W. C.