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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bible

10.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

11.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

Fields, W. C.

12.

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

Watson, Sir William

13.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

14.

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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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

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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.

17.

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

Havner, Vance

18.

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

Selden, John

19.

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

20.

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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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.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

27.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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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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

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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

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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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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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I drink to make other people interesting.

35.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fielding, Henry

41.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Schefer, L.

44.

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

Squire, John

45.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

46.

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

47.

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

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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