Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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.

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

10.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 drink to make other people interesting.

19.

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

Selden, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fields, W. C.

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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

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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

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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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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

31.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Bible

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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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