Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Kerr, Jean

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Lee, Robert E.

10.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

11.

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

Farquhar, George

12.

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

13.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

14.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

15.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Squire, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Watson, Sir William

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Havner, Vance

28.

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

29.

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

Selden, John

30.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Fielding, Henry

37.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

I drink to make other people interesting.

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

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.

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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

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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

Yeats, William Butler

50.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean