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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

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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''

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Epictetus

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

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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

14.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Havner, Vance

17.

I drink to make other people interesting.

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

21.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

24.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

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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

28.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

29.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

30.

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

Yeats, William Butler

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

40.

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

41.

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

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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

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

47.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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