Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Masson, Thomas L.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

1.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

2.

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

Fields, W. C.

3.

I drink to make other people interesting.

4.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Fuller, Thomas

8.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

9.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

10.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

11.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

12.

Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and who is deceived by it is not wise.

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Schefer, L.

15.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Selden, John

21.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

Bunuel, Luis

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

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.

31.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Herbert, George

35.

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

36.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

37.

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

Yeats, William Butler

38.

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

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.