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

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Havner, Vance

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

Schefer, L.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Bible

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

Rabelais, Francois

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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.

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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

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Squire, John

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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.

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

Selden, John

41.

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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I drink to forget I drink.