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

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

16.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

17.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Schefer, L.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

25.

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

Watson, Sir William

26.

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''

27.

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.

28.

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

Lee, Robert E.

29.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

30.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

31.

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

Herbert, George

32.

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

33.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

34.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

35.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Yeats, William Butler

36.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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.

39.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

40.

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

41.

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

Havner, Vance

42.

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

Farquhar, George

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Selden, John

48.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

49.

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

Squire, John

50.

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