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

Farquhar, George

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Schefer, L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

13.

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

14.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

20.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

I drink to make other people interesting.

23.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

24.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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.

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

31.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Bunuel, Luis

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Irish

38.

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''

39.

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

Yeats, William Butler

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Herbert, George

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

47.

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

Rabelais, Francois

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

Epictetus

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