Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

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 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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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I drink to make other people interesting.

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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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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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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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