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

1.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

2.

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

3.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

4.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

8.

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

Fielding, Henry

9.

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

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

Lee, Robert E.

11.

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.

12.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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

Rabelais, Francois

14.

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

15.

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

Squire, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

Proverb, Irish

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

29.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

30.

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

31.

I drink to make other people interesting.

32.

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

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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

Yeats, William Butler

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Schefer, L.

37.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

38.

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

Farquhar, George

39.

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

40.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

44.

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

45.

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''

46.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

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

48.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

49.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

50.

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.