Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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''

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

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

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Selden, John

14.

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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Stewart, Eliza ''Mother''

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Herbert, George

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

Rabelais, Francois

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bunuel, Luis

27.

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

Bible

28.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

31.

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

32.

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

Kerr, Jean

33.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

39.

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

40.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

42.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Watson, Sir William

47.

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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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

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

Fields, W. C.