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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Havner, Vance

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

10.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

11.

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

12.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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''

14.

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

15.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Farquhar, George

17.

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

18.

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.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

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

Selden, John

26.

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

27.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

28.

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.

29.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

30.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

32.

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

33.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

Schefer, L.

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

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

38.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

39.

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

Yeats, William Butler

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Proverb, Irish

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

Squire, John

47.

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

48.

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

Fields, W. C.

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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

Bible