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Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fields, W. C.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Rabelais, Francois

16.

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

Bunuel, Luis

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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''

19.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

21.

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

22.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

23.

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.

24.

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

Selden, John

25.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

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

28.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

29.

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

30.

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

31.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

I drink to make other people interesting.

34.

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

35.

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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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

37.

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

Havner, Vance

38.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Schefer, L.

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

Old wine and friends improve with age.