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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Mencken, H. L.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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.

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Masson, Thomas L.

16.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Lee, Robert E.

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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

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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.

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

Watson, Sir William

24.

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.

25.

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

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

Epictetus

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

Bunuel, Luis

33.

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

34.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

35.

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

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

Proverb, Irish

37.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Fields, W. C.

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.