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 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.

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

Fields, W. C.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Farquhar, George

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Herbert, George

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

Havner, Vance

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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.

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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Schefer, L.

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Epictetus

29.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

30.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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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

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

33.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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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.

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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