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'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.

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

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

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

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

10.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

15.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

16.

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

Lee, Robert E.

17.

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

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

23.

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

24.

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

Farquhar, George

25.

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

Herbert, George

27.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

29.

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.

30.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

31.

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

Bunuel, Luis

32.

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

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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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''

38.

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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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

40.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

44.

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

Proverb, Irish

45.

I drink to make other people interesting.

46.

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

Watson, Sir William

47.

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

48.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas