Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

- Fuller, Thomas

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Selden, John

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

Barach, Alvan 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.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rabelais, Francois

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

14.

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

15.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

16.

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

Bunuel, Luis

17.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Masson, Thomas L.

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

Yeats, William Butler

20.

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

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Proverb, Irish

23.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

24.

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

Kerr, Jean

25.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Fielding, Henry

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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

Schefer, L.

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

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

Epictetus

30.

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

Herbert, George

31.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

42.

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

Havner, Vance

43.

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

44.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

45.

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

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

47.

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.

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.