Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Temple, Sir William

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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.

14.

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

Schefer, L.

15.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

I drink to make other people interesting.

28.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

29.

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

Kerr, Jean

30.

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

Farquhar, George

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

34.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

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

Herbert, George

36.

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

37.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

38.

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

39.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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''

49.

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

50.

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