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

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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Epictetus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

11.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

12.

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

Yeats, William Butler

13.

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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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''

15.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

19.

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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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

21.

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.

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

24.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

27.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

32.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Watson, Sir William

34.

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

35.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

36.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Fields, W. C.

38.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Havner, Vance

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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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The piano has been drinking, not me.