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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rabelais, Francois

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Squire, John

10.

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

Selden, John

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

12.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

I drink to make other people interesting.

17.

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

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

Bible

19.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

20.

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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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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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

23.

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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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.

25.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

31.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

32.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

33.

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

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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''

35.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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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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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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

40.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Fielding, Henry

43.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

44.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

46.

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

Watson, Sir William

48.

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

Yeats, William Butler

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell