Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

- Nathan, George Jean

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Proverb, Spanish

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Watson, Sir William

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

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

10.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

12.

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

Herbert, George

13.

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

Rabelais, Francois

14.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

15.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Selden, John

23.

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

Squire, John

24.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

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

27.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

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

36.

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

Schefer, L.

37.

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''

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

47.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

48.

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.

49.

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

Fields, W. C.