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

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

13.

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

Kerr, Jean

14.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

19.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

20.

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

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

23.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

24.

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

25.

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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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Herbert, George

31.

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

Squire, John

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

43.

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

Bunuel, Luis

44.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

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

46.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.