Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Squire, John

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Selden, John

14.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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

16.

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

Rabelais, Francois

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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

Lee, Robert E.

22.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

23.

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

Herbert, George

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

26.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

29.

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

Mencken, H. L.

30.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

32.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Yeats, William Butler

33.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

34.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Barkley, Alben W.

38.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

I drink to make other people interesting.

42.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

45.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

46.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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.

49.

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.

50.

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

Havner, Vance