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

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Schefer, L.

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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

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

Havner, Vance

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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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

30.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Kerr, Jean

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Watson, Sir William

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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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