Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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.

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

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Yeats, William Butler

16.

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

Lee, Robert E.

17.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Schefer, L.

19.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Kerr, Jean

23.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise.

Bible

30.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

31.

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

32.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

Fielding, Henry

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

40.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

41.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

I drink to make other people interesting.

44.

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

Farquhar, George

45.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

48.

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

Havner, Vance

49.

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

Watson, Sir William

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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.