Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Mencken, H. L.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

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

Havner, Vance

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

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

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 first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Temple, Sir William

11.

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.

12.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

13.

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

14.

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

Rabelais, Francois

15.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

16.

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.

17.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

19.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

21.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

22.

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

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

31.

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

Fields, W. C.

32.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

34.

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

Watson, Sir William

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

36.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

37.

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

Selden, John

38.

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

Lee, Robert E.

39.

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

Herbert, George

40.

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

Kerr, Jean

41.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Bunuel, Luis

45.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.