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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

10.

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

Havner, Vance

11.

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

12.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

13.

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

Schefer, L.

14.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

15.

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

Lee, Robert E.

16.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

19.

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

20.

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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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

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

Bunuel, Luis

24.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

25.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

26.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Proverb, Irish

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

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''

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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.

36.

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

Selden, John

37.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

39.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

41.

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.

42.

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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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

44.

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.

45.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

47.

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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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

I drink to make other people interesting.

50.

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

Proverb, Spanish