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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bible

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

12.

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

Selden, John

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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

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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

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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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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

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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''

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

Schefer, L.

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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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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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.

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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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

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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

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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.

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Lee, Robert E.