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

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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.

10.

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

11.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

16.

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

17.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Selden, John

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Havner, Vance

21.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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.

25.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

27.

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.

28.

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.

29.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Kerr, Jean

35.

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

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

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

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

40.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

41.

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

Squire, John

42.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

43.

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

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

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

Watson, Sir William

47.

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

Rabelais, Francois

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius