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

1.

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

2.

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

Selden, John

3.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

7.

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

8.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

14.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

16.

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

Farquhar, George

17.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

18.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Chandler, Raymond

19.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

20.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I drink to make other people interesting.

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

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

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

29.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

30.

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

31.

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

Rabelais, Francois

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

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

37.

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.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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