Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

- Fields, W. C.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Rabelais, Francois

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Churchill, Winston

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''

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Squire, John

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

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.

11.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

12.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Fields, W. C.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

19.

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

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

23.

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

24.

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

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

Schefer, L.

26.

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

Lee, Robert E.

27.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

28.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

31.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

32.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

Farquhar, George

35.

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

Bunuel, Luis

36.

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

Havner, Vance

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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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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

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

Herbert, George

45.

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

46.

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

Kerr, Jean

47.

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

48.

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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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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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