Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fields, W. C.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

1.

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

Johnson, Samuel

2.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

6.

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

Fields, W. C.

7.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

8.

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

Proverb, Irish

9.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

17.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

18.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Kerr, Jean

22.

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

23.

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

Squire, John

24.

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

Schefer, L.

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

30.

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

Havner, Vance

31.

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.

32.

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.

33.

I drink to make other people interesting.

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

37.

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

Fields, W. C.

38.

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

Fielding, Henry

39.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

40.

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

Epictetus

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Rabelais, Francois

44.

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

45.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

46.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

47.

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

48.

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

Lee, Robert E.

49.

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

Farquhar, George

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.