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 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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

15.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

16.

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

Yeats, William Butler

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

19.

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.

20.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

21.

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

Selden, John

22.

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

Rabelais, Francois

23.

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

Kerr, Jean

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Havner, Vance

32.

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

Squire, John

33.

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

Epictetus

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.

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

36.

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

Bunuel, Luis

37.

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

38.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

41.

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

42.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

43.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

44.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

45.

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

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

48.

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

49.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

50.

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.