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

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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

Lee, Robert E.

11.

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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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

13.

If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!

Sermond, Pete

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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

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

Selden, John

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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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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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Epictetus

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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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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

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

Squire, John

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

Schefer, L.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Herbert, George

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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