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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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Irish

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

12.

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

Rabelais, Francois

13.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

14.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

16.

I drink to make other people interesting.

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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.

27.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

32.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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.

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

37.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

38.

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

39.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

40.

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

41.

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

Bunuel, Luis

42.

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

43.

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''

44.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

48.

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

Havner, Vance

49.

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

50.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter