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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Havner, Vance

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

I drink to make other people interesting.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Watson, Sir William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

15.

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

16.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

17.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Bunuel, Luis

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Squire, John

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

28.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

31.

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

Fields, W. C.

32.

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

Herbert, George

33.

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

34.

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

35.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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

Proverb, Irish