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

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

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

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

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Kerr, Jean

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

10.

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

Herbert, George

11.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

14.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Selden, John

22.

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

Schefer, L.

23.

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.

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

28.

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

Lee, Robert E.

29.

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

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

32.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

33.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

35.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

Yeats, William Butler

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Rabelais, Francois

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

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.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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

Bible