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

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Masson, Thomas L.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

13.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

14.

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

Squire, John

15.

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

16.

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

Bunuel, Luis

17.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Selden, John

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

Rabelais, Francois

26.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

33.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

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

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

39.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

41.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

43.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

47.

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

Fields, W. C.

48.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

49.

I drink to make other people interesting.

50.

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.