Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Churchill, Winston

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Yeats, William Butler

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Farquhar, George

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Watson, Sir William

10.

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

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

22.

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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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.

24.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

25.

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

Proverb, Irish

26.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

27.

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''

28.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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.

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

Schefer, L.

32.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

36.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

37.

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.

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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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

40.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

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

Kerr, Jean

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

44.

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

Selden, John

45.

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

Squire, John

46.

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

47.

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

Havner, Vance

48.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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.