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

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

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

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

Epictetus

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Bible

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Lee, Robert E.

12.

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

13.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

14.

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

Havner, Vance

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

16.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

17.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Kerr, Jean

21.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

24.

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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''

31.

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

32.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

Squire, John

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Herbert, George

38.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

42.

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

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

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

47.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

48.

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

Selden, John

49.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

I drink to forget I drink.