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

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Herbert, George

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

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.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

19.

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

Kerr, Jean

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

22.

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

23.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

Lee, Robert E.

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

Watson, Sir William

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.

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

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.

36.

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

Squire, John

37.

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

Farquhar, George

38.

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

Havner, Vance

39.

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

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

I drink to make other people interesting.

42.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Selden, John

45.

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

Bunuel, Luis

46.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

47.

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

Johnson, Samuel

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.