Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Herbert, George

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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'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.

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Selden, John

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

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.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Epictetus

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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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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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Herbert, George

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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I drink to make other people interesting.

45.

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

Bible

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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.