Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bible

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Schefer, L.

10.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Irish

16.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

17.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

18.

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

Watson, Sir William

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

Epictetus

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Lee, Robert E.

22.

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

Selden, John

23.

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

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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

25.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Rabelais, Francois

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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.

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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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

35.

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

Havner, Vance

36.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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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

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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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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

42.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.