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

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

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.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Kerr, Jean

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.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Herbert, George

14.

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

15.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

Schefer, L.

25.

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

26.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Rabelais, Francois

29.

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

Havner, Vance

30.

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

Farquhar, George

31.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

40.

I drink to make other people interesting.

41.

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.

42.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

Selden, John

45.

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''

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.