Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

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

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

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

Havner, Vance

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bunuel, Luis

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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''

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

15.

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

Herbert, George

16.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

22.

I drink to make other people interesting.

23.

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

Selden, John

24.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Squire, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

33.

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

Yeats, William Butler

34.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

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

36.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

37.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

38.

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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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

40.

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

Rabelais, Francois

41.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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

46.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kerr, Jean

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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