Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fielding, Henry

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Selden, John

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Watson, Sir William

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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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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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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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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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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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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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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Epictetus

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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

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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Lee, Robert E.

36.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Herbert, George

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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