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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Churchill, Winston

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, 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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Selden, John

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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

Herbert, George

20.

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

21.

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

Yeats, William Butler

22.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

23.

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

24.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

25.

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

26.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

29.

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.

30.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

37.

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

38.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

39.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

42.

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

Lee, Robert E.

43.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

44.

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.

45.

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''

46.

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

47.

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

Bunuel, Luis

48.

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

Squire, John

49.

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

50.

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