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

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

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

Watson, Sir William

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Farquhar, George

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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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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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

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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

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

24.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

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

Epictetus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Schefer, L.

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Proverb, Irish

43.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Selden, John

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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

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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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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Proverb, Spanish