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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Kerr, Jean

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

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.

12.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

14.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

17.

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

Watson, Sir William

18.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

19.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

24.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Bunuel, Luis

25.

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.

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

I drink to make other people interesting.

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

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

Rabelais, Francois

34.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

35.

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''

36.

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

37.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

Bible

41.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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

Selden, John

46.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

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