Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

- Bombeck, Erma

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rabelais, Francois

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Behan, Brendan F.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Herbert, George

14.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

20.

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

Kerr, Jean

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Fielding, Henry

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Selden, John

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

39.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Squire, John

44.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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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''

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca