Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Lee, Robert E.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Herbert, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Bunuel, Luis

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

14.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

18.

I drink to make other people interesting.

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

Lee, Robert E.

25.

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

Havner, Vance

26.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

27.

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.

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

29.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

30.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Rabelais, Francois

34.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

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

Squire, John

48.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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

50.

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