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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Masson, Thomas L.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Fields, W. C.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Lee, Robert E.

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

22.

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.

23.

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

Bible

24.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

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

Schefer, L.

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

28.

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''

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

32.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

33.

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

Farquhar, George

34.

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

35.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Watson, Sir William

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

40.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

41.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Herbert, George

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

48.

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.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.