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

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

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Epictetus

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

10.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

19.

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

20.

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

Farquhar, George

21.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

22.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

23.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

26.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

27.

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.

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

Yeats, William Butler

32.

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

Herbert, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

36.

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

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Bible

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Selden, John

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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

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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

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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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I drink to make other people interesting.

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.