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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bible

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

10.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

11.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

12.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Squire, John

19.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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.

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Selden, John

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

33.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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 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

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

Herbert, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

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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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No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!

Stewart, Eliza ''Mother''

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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

50.

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