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

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

Bunuel, Luis

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

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''

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

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

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

10.

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

11.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

12.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

15.

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

Herbert, George

16.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

17.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Farquhar, George

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 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

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

29.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Lee, Robert E.

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

Kerr, Jean

39.

I drink to make other people interesting.

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

46.

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

47.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.