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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Yeats, William Butler

10.

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

Lee, Robert E.

11.

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

12.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

13.

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

14.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

15.

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

Watson, Sir William

16.

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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Fields, W. C.

19.

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

20.

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

Squire, John

21.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

22.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

32.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Kerr, Jean

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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

Bunuel, Luis

35.

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

36.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

39.

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

40.

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

Herbert, George

41.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

42.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

43.

I drink to make other people interesting.

44.

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

45.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

47.

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''

48.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Chandler, Raymond

49.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

50.

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