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

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

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.

10.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

11.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Farquhar, George

20.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

23.

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

Fielding, Henry

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Bunuel, Luis

30.

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''

31.

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.

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Schefer, L.

34.

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

35.

I drink to make other people interesting.

36.

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

37.

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

Watson, Sir William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

43.

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

44.

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

Squire, John

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