Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Schefer, L.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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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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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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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.

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Selden, John

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

Epictetus

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

41.

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

Watson, Sir William

42.

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

Squire, John

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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

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Farquhar, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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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