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

1.

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

Watson, Sir William

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

6.

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

Epictetus

7.

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

8.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

9.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Squire, John

11.

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

12.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

13.

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

Yeats, William Butler

14.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

15.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

16.

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

Fields, W. C.

17.

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

Havner, Vance

18.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

21.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

23.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

24.

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

25.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

26.

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

27.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

31.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

35.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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

Farquhar, George

38.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

39.

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

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Kerr, Jean

42.

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

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Selden, John

46.

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

Proverb, Irish

47.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

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.