Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Churchill, Winston

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

1.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

2.

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

Fields, W. C.

3.

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

4.

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

Lee, Robert E.

5.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

6.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

7.

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

8.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

9.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

10.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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.

14.

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

Yeats, William Butler

15.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

16.

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

Fields, W. C.

17.

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

18.

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

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

Bunuel, Luis

20.

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

21.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Schefer, L.

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

27.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

28.

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

29.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

30.

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

Proverb, Irish

31.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

32.

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.

33.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

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

35.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

38.

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

39.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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.

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

47.

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

Kerr, Jean

48.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

49.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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''