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

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

12.

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

13.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

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

26.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

27.

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

Rabelais, Francois

28.

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.

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

31.

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

Schefer, L.

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Bunuel, Luis

34.

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

35.

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

Watson, Sir William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Fields, W. C.

40.

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

41.

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

Kerr, Jean

42.

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.

43.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

45.

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

Lee, Robert E.

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

48.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.