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

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

Kerr, Jean

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.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

Thurber, James

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

Bunuel, Luis

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Herbert, George

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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''

17.

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

Proverb, Irish

18.

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

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

21.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

Lee, Robert E.

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Fielding, Henry

30.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

32.

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

Watson, Sir William

33.

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

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.

I drink to make other people interesting.

36.

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

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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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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

39.

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

Rabelais, Francois

40.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

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

Yeats, William Butler

42.

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

43.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

44.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

45.

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

Schefer, L.

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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.

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

Bible

48.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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.