Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Kerr, Jean

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

1.

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

2.

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

Johnson, Samuel

3.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

4.

I drink to make other people interesting.

5.

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

Fields, W. C.

6.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

7.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

8.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

9.

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

10.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

14.

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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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.

16.

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

Selden, John

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Havner, Vance

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

Schefer, L.

25.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Squire, John

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

30.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

31.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Lee, Robert E.

32.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

33.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

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

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

41.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Kerr, Jean

43.

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Zappa, Frank

44.

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

45.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

46.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

49.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

50.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.