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

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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.

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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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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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bible

19.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Barach, Alvan L.

25.

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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Epictetus

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Squire, John

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

Kerr, Jean

48.

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

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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''

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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