Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Selden, John

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Bible

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

13.

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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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

17.

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

Kerr, Jean

18.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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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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''

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Rabelais, Francois

29.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

33.

I drink to make other people interesting.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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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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.

38.

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

39.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Epictetus

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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.

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.