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

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Kerr, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

20.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

22.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Irish

26.

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

Watson, Sir William

27.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Lee, Robert E.

33.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

38.

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

Havner, Vance

39.

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''

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

43.

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

Bunuel, Luis

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

50.

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

Barach, Alvan L.