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Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Behan, Brendan F.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

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.

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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

10.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Yeats, William Butler

15.

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

Selden, John

16.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

17.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

18.

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

19.

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

Watson, Sir William

20.

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

Schefer, L.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

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

33.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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.

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

Herbert, George

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

43.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

46.

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''

47.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

Fields, W. C.

49.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

50.

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