Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fields, W. C.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Schefer, L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Fields, W. C.

12.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

13.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

14.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

20.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

21.

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

22.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Kerr, Jean

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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.

40.

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

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.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

43.

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

Yeats, William Butler

44.

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

45.

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

Selden, John

46.

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

Johnson, Samuel

47.

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.

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Proverb, Irish

50.

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

Squire, John