Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

1.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

2.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

3.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

4.

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

5.

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''

6.

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

Yeats, William Butler

7.

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.

Cobb, Irvin S.

8.

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

9.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

13.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

Martin, Dean

14.

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

Watson, Sir William

15.

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

16.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

I drink to make other people interesting.

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Kerr, Jean

23.

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

24.

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

Squire, John

25.

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

26.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

30.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

31.

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

32.

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

33.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

34.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Selden, John

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

42.

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

43.

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

Rabelais, Francois

44.

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

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

46.

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

Fields, W. C.

47.

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.

48.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

49.

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

50.

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