Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Schefer, L.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Selden, John

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

10.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

11.

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

Squire, John

12.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Bunuel, Luis

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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

Fielding, Henry

20.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

29.

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

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

38.

I drink to make other people interesting.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

43.

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

Watson, Sir William

44.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

47.

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

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

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

Havner, Vance