Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Epictetus

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

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

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

Schefer, L.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

14.

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

15.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Fields, W. C.

17.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

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''

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

Kerr, Jean

25.

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

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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.

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Selden, John

34.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

39.

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.

40.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

41.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

42.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I drink to make other people interesting.

46.

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

47.

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

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

Behan, Brendan F.

49.

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

50.

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

Fields, W. C.