Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

I drink to forget I drink.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

10.

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

Kerr, Jean

11.

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

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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

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Bible

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

25.

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

Havner, Vance

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

30.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

Proverb, Irish

35.

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

36.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

37.

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

38.

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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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''

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

Schefer, L.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Lee, Robert E.

47.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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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.