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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Churchill, Winston

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

10.

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.

11.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Herbert, George

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

Havner, Vance

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

18.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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 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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Selden, John

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

38.

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

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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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