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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fields, W. C.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

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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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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

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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.

16.

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

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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

18.

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

19.

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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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.

21.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Herbert, George

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

26.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

Selden, John

29.

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

30.

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

Kerr, Jean

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

39.

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''

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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

41.

I drink to make other people interesting.

42.

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

Rabelais, Francois

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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

46.

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

Yeats, William Butler

47.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

48.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

49.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas