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

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Masson, Thomas L.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

10.

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

11.

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

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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

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lee, Robert E.

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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''

18.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Watson, Sir William

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Aldrich, Henry

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

Proverb, Irish

32.

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

Herbert, George

33.

I drink to make other people interesting.

34.

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

35.

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

Farquhar, George

36.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

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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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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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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.

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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

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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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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