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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Epictetus

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Havner, Vance

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

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

Selden, John

10.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Kerr, Jean

14.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

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

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

19.

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

20.

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.

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.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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''

26.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

28.

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

Squire, John

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

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

Farquhar, George

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.

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

34.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Schefer, L.

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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

Fields, W. C.

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

44.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

47.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

48.

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

Bunuel, Luis

49.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

50.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.