Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Fields, W. C.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Masson, Thomas L.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

Schefer, L.

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

14.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

15.

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

16.

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

Lee, Robert E.

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

25.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

26.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Herbert, George

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

34.

I drink to make other people interesting.

35.

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

36.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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

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

Bible

39.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

40.

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

Squire, John

41.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

43.

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.

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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.

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

Havner, Vance

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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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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''

48.

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

Watson, Sir William

49.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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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