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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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 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

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

Bible

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.

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

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.

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

Schefer, L.

10.

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

Squire, John

11.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

12.

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

Yeats, William Butler

13.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

14.

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

Farquhar, George

15.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

16.

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

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

20.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

21.

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

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

24.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Rabelais, Francois

26.

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

27.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

29.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.