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

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

Proverb, Irish

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Watson, Sir William

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Yeats, William Butler

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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.

14.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

Farquhar, George

23.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

26.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

30.

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

31.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

32.

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

Schefer, L.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Selden, John

37.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

38.

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

39.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

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

43.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

Herbert, George

45.

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

46.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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