Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

1.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Fielding, Henry

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

7.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

8.

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

Yeats, William Butler

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rabelais, Francois

12.

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

13.

I drink to make other people interesting.

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

17.

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

18.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

19.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

25.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

29.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Barach, Alvan L.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

34.

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

Squire, John

35.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

36.

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

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

41.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Bunuel, Luis

43.

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

44.

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

Herbert, George

45.

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

Havner, Vance

46.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

47.

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.