Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rabelais, Francois

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.

Cobb, Irvin S.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

11.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.

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I drink to make other people interesting.

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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

25.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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

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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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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schefer, L.

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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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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

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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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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Havner, Vance

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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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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

43.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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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

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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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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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