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

1.

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

2.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

3.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

4.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

Fielding, Henry

6.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

7.

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

8.

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''

9.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

11.

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

12.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

13.

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.

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

16.

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

Squire, John

17.

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

Farquhar, George

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Yeats, William Butler

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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.

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

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

27.

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

Selden, John

28.

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

Rabelais, Francois

29.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

30.

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

Schefer, L.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

34.

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

Havner, Vance

35.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

36.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

38.

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

Bunuel, Luis

39.

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

Herbert, George

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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