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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

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

Farquhar, George

10.

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

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

14.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

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

Yeats, William Butler

20.

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

21.

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''

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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.

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

28.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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.

30.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

31.

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

Herbert, George

32.

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

33.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

36.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

37.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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

Squire, John

45.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

47.

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

Kerr, Jean

48.

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

49.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

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

Barach, Alvan L.