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.

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

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Schefer, L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

10.

I drink to make other people interesting.

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.

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''

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

18.

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

Lee, Robert E.

19.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

24.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

25.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

Kerr, Jean

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

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

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Yeats, William Butler

31.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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.

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

38.

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.

39.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

40.

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

41.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

42.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

Herbert, George

44.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Rabelais, Francois

50.

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