Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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.

10.

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

Farquhar, George

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

16.

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

17.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

I drink to make other people interesting.

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

32.

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Squire, John

34.

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

Kerr, Jean

35.

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

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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''

40.

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

Watson, Sir William

41.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

42.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

43.

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

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Selden, John

46.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.