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

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fields, W. C.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Herbert, George

11.

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

Schefer, L.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bible

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Farquhar, George

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

Epictetus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

29.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

33.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

37.

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

Kerr, Jean

38.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Proverb, Irish

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

42.

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.

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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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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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