Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Selden, John

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

10.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

11.

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

12.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

18.

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

Havner, Vance

19.

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

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Squire, John

24.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Watson, Sir William

26.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

27.

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

Rabelais, Francois

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bunuel, Luis

35.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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

38.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

39.

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

Fields, W. C.

40.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

41.

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

42.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

46.

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

47.

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

Herbert, George

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell