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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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.

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

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

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

Bible

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

10.

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

Bunuel, Luis

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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''

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

Selden, John

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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

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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

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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

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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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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

24.

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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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

I drink to make other people interesting.

29.

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

Epictetus

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.

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

32.

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

Kerr, Jean

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Havner, Vance

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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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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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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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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

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

Herbert, George

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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

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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

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

Behan, Brendan F.

48.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

49.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.