Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Epictetus

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Havner, Vance

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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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

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

23.

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

Yeats, William Butler

24.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

25.

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

Bunuel, Luis

26.

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

27.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

29.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

31.

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

Selden, John

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

I drink to make other people interesting.

36.

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

Kerr, Jean

39.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

42.

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.

43.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

45.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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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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

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

49.

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

Fielding, Henry

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