Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Proverb, Irish

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Squire, John

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

Selden, John

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

17.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

18.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

19.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Schefer, L.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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.

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

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

32.

An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.

Barach, Alvan L.

33.

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

Kerr, Jean

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Watson, Sir William

36.

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

37.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

42.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

I drink to make other people interesting.

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Rabelais, Francois

46.

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

47.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

48.

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

Fields, W. C.

49.

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

Bunuel, Luis

50.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.