Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Rabelais, Francois

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

Havner, Vance

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Yeats, William Butler

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.

10.

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

Squire, John

11.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

13.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

17.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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.

23.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

24.

I drink to make other people interesting.

25.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Barach, Alvan L.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

40.

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

41.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

43.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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

Watson, Sir William

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

50.

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

Barkley, Alben W.