Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lewis, Joe E.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe 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

10.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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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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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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I drink to make other people interesting.

16.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

17.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Selden, John

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

Bible

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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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.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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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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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

30.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

Watson, Sir William

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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''

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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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

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

Schefer, L.

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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.

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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

41.

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

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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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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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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