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

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Selden, John

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Schefer, L.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

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

Herbert, George

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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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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

16.

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

17.

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

Lee, Robert E.

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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

Epictetus

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

25.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

26.

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

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Havner, Vance

34.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

38.

I drink to make other people interesting.

39.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

40.

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

41.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

46.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

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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