Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fields, W. C.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Schefer, L.

18.

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

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

23.

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

Squire, John

24.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

27.

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

Bunuel, Luis

28.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Irish

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

35.

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

Watson, Sir William

36.

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

37.

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

Farquhar, George

38.

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

39.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Selden, John

43.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

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

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

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

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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

50.

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