Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

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

Squire, John

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

Farquhar, George

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

10.

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

11.

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

Yeats, William Butler

12.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

14.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

15.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

16.

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.

17.

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''

18.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Aldrich, Henry

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

30.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

31.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Selden, John

35.

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

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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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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

41.

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

42.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

47.

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

Lee, Robert E.

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel