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

1.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

2.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

3.

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''

4.

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

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Selden, John

7.

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

8.

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

Lee, Robert E.

9.

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

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

12.

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

Watson, Sir William

13.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

14.

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

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

16.

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

Herbert, George

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

21.

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

22.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

23.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

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

Farquhar, George

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

32.

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

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

35.

I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

Squire, John

36.

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

Havner, Vance

37.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Kerr, Jean

39.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

40.

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

41.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

42.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

44.

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.