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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Epictetus

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

14.

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

15.

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

Fielding, Henry

16.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Yeats, William Butler

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

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

Kerr, Jean

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

29.

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

30.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

I drink to make other people interesting.

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

37.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

38.

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.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

40.

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

Farquhar, George

41.

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.

42.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

43.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

44.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Lee, Robert E.

49.

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

50.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.