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

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Selden, John

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.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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 piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

12.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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

27.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

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

Schefer, L.

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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.

34.

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

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

39.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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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.

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

Proverb, Irish

47.

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

48.

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

Squire, John