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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Epictetus

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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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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

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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

14.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

17.

I drink to make other people interesting.

18.

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

Herbert, George

19.

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

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Schefer, L.

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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 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

24.

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Watson, Sir William

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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.

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

Selden, John

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

33.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

35.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Barkley, Alben W.

38.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

40.

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

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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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