Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

10.

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

11.

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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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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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

14.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

15.

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

Squire, John

16.

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

Bunuel, Luis

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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.

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

22.

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

Farquhar, George

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

25.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Havner, Vance

29.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

30.

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.

31.

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

Kerr, Jean

32.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

33.

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

34.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

35.

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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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

37.

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

Herbert, George

38.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

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

47.

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

Schefer, L.

48.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

49.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.