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

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Fielding, Henry

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

10.

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.

11.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Watson, Sir William

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

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

Squire, John

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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.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

20.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Havner, Vance

22.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

23.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Herbert, George

25.

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

26.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

I drink to make other people interesting.

30.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

33.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

34.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

38.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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.

46.

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

47.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

49.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

50.

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.