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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Squire, John

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

13.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

14.

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

Proverb, Irish

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Lee, Robert E.

21.

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

22.

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

Havner, Vance

23.

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

24.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

I drink to make other people interesting.

27.

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

Herbert, George

28.

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

Selden, John

29.

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

Bunuel, Luis

30.

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

Schefer, L.

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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.

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

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

41.

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

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

Fielding, Henry

47.

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''

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.