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

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

Herbert, George

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

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.

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

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

12.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

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

Squire, John

15.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

16.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

17.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

19.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Bunuel, Luis

21.

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

Kerr, Jean

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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''

25.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with, and it must be so.

Native American Elder

26.

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

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

29.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Epictetus

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Havner, Vance

43.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

44.

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

Watson, Sir William

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Selden, John

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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.