Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Old wine and friends improve with age.

- Proverb, Italian

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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''

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

Epictetus

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Schefer, L.

14.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

15.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

20.

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

Kerr, Jean

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

23.

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

Farquhar, George

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

26.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

34.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

35.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

Squire, John

37.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.

Washington, Denzel

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Irish

40.

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.

41.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

44.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

45.

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

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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

48.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

49.

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

50.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.