Motivational Quotes

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

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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

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 cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

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

Squire, John

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

12.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

13.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

14.

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

15.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Watson, Sir William

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

36.

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

37.

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

Lee, Robert E.

38.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Shakespeare, William

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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

40.

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.

41.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

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.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

48.

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

Fields, W. C.

49.

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

Fielding, Henry

50.

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.