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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Epictetus

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Yeats, William Butler

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Fields, W. C.

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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.

17.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

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

Squire, John

20.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

21.

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

Rabelais, Francois

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

24.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

34.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

Havner, Vance

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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''

42.

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

43.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

44.

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

45.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

50.

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