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

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Schefer, L.

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

Selden, John

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

10.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

11.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

12.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

13.

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

Lee, Robert E.

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Bunuel, Luis

20.

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

21.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

22.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

23.

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

Bible

24.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

25.

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

26.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Havner, Vance

30.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

I drink to make other people interesting.

34.

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.

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

37.

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

Rabelais, Francois

38.

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

Yeats, William Butler

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

42.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

43.

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

44.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

45.

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

46.

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

47.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, George

48.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

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