Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fields, W. C.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bible

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.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

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.

10.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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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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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.

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

Rabelais, Francois

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

23.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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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

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

Havner, Vance

34.

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

35.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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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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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Yeats, William Butler

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

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

Squire, John

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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