Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Havner, Vance

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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.

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.

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

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''

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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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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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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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Kerr, Jean

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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

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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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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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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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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

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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 treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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