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

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bunuel, Luis

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Watson, Sir William

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Kerr, Jean

13.

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

Havner, Vance

14.

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

Schefer, L.

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

17.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Rabelais, Francois

22.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

26.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

27.

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

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Herbert, George

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.

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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.

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

Lee, Robert E.

39.

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

Proverb, Irish

40.

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

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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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

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

45.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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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

47.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

49.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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