Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

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

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.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

Kerr, Jean

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

17.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

18.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

19.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

25.

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

Selden, John

26.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

27.

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

Herbert, George

28.

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

Farquhar, George

29.

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

30.

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

Schefer, L.

31.

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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

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.

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

Bible

36.

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

Proverb, Irish

37.

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

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Pepys, Samuel

40.

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.

41.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

42.

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

43.

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

Bunuel, Luis

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

46.

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

Watson, Sir William

47.

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

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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.

50.

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

Squire, John