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

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

Barach, Alvan L.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Herbert, George

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Masson, Thomas L.

12.

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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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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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.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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 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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Selden, John

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Schefer, L.