Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Bible

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

I drink to make other people interesting.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Kerr, Jean

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Schefer, L.

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

Herbert, George

10.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

11.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

12.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

13.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

30.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lee, Robert E.

32.

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

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Fields, W. C.

38.

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

Squire, John

39.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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.

41.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Epictetus

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

Masson, Thomas L.

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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