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

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Squire, John

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

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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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Herbert, George

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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

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

Schefer, L.