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

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

Bible

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

Selden, John

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

13.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

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''

16.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

18.

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.

19.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

26.

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

27.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

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

31.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

32.

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

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Schefer, L.

39.

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

40.

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

Rabelais, Francois

41.

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

Lee, Robert E.

42.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

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.

46.

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

Fielding, Henry

47.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Irish

50.

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