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

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Chandler, Raymond

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Lewis, Joe E.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

10.

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

11.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

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

Havner, Vance

20.

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

Farquhar, George

21.

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

22.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

23.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

24.

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

Bunuel, Luis

25.

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

Yeats, William Butler

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

32.

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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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

34.

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

35.

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Irish

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Selden, John

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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

41.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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''

44.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

45.

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

46.

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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.