Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Fields, W. C.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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.

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

Bunuel, Luis

10.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

18.

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

Rabelais, Francois

19.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

20.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

23.

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

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Lee, Robert E.

26.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

28.

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

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Yeats, William Butler

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

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

Kerr, Jean

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.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Fields, W. C.

38.

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

Schefer, L.

39.

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

Farquhar, George

40.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

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

42.

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

Selden, John

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

46.

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''

47.

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

Fields, W. C.

48.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

49.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

50.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas