Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

- Bogart, Humphrey

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

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.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Fields, W. C.

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

Lee, Robert E.

15.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

16.

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

17.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

18.

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

Havner, Vance

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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''

22.

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

Squire, John

23.

I drink to make other people interesting.

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Yeats, William Butler

28.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

29.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

31.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

32.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

34.

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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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.

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

Herbert, George

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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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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

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

Rabelais, Francois

42.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fields, W. C.

50.

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