Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Herbert, George

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

Watson, Sir William

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

14.

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

Squire, John

15.

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

Schefer, L.

16.

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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

20.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

21.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

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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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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

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

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

Farquhar, George

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

37.

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

Selden, John

38.

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

39.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Barkley, Alben W.

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

43.

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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.

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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.

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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

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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

49.

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

50.

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