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

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

Schefer, L.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

I drink to make other people interesting.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

Squire, John

11.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

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

Kerr, Jean

15.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

16.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

21.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

22.

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

23.

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

Lee, Robert E.

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

Watson, Sir William

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

38.

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.

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

Herbert, George

41.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

43.

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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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

45.

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

46.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Barkley, Alben W.

47.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

48.

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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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.