Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

- Lewis, Joe 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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schefer, L.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Kerr, Jean

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

I drink to make other people interesting.

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.

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

11.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

13.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

14.

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

15.

Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise.

Bible

16.

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''

17.

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

Proverb, Irish

18.

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

19.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

21.

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

Rabelais, Francois

22.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

32.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

39.

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

40.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

41.

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

Farquhar, George

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.

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.

44.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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.

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

Havner, Vance

47.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

48.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

49.

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

50.

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.