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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!

Crowley, Aleister

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Epictetus

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Bible

10.

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

Squire, John

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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.

15.

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

Kerr, Jean

16.

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

17.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

20.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

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

Lee, Robert E.

23.

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

24.

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

Schefer, L.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped [drinking], I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now.

Larroquette, John

28.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

30.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Herbert, George

35.

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

36.

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

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.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

41.

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

42.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

43.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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