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

Lee, Robert E.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Herbert, George

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Duras, Marguerite

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

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

12.

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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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

18.

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

19.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Watson, Sir William

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

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

26.

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

Rabelais, Francois

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

29.

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

Selden, John

30.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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.

32.

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

Schefer, L.

33.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Farquhar, George

36.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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.

38.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

41.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

44.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

47.

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.

48.

I drink to make other people interesting.

49.

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.