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'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

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

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

Epictetus

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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''

11.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bunuel, Luis

13.

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

Rabelais, Francois

14.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

15.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

16.

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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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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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.

25.

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

Selden, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Farquhar, George

34.

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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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 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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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

38.

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

39.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

43.

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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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

45.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Fields, W. C.

47.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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