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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

4.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

5.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

6.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Farquhar, George

13.

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

Schefer, L.

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

18.

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

Yeats, William Butler

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

22.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

23.

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

24.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

25.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

30.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

Fields, W. C.

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

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

Kerr, Jean

44.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

49.

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

Herbert, George

50.

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

Havner, Vance