Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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 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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Herbert, George

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

19.

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

25.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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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.

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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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

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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

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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

35.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Churchill, Winston

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Irish

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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.

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

Bible

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I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Schefer, L.

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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.

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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