Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

- Koran, The

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

10.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

19.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

20.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

23.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

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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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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fields, W. C.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

31.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

33.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

37.

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.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Farquhar, George

42.

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

Selden, John

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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