Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

Bunuel, Luis

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

17.

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

18.

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

Squire, John

19.

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

Herbert, George

20.

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

Watson, Sir William

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, George

24.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

26.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

27.

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.

28.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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''

30.

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

Lee, Robert E.

31.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

32.

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

33.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

43.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

44.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

45.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Selden, John

49.

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

Rabelais, Francois

50.

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

Churchill, Winston