Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Barach, Alvan L.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Selden, John

10.

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

Herbert, George

11.

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

Bunuel, Luis

12.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

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

Rabelais, Francois

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

17.

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

Schefer, L.

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

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''

20.

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.

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

23.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

24.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

25.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

26.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

27.

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

28.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

33.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Yeats, William Butler

35.

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

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

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

38.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

40.

I drink to make other people interesting.

41.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

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.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Squire, John

46.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

47.

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

Proverb, Irish

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