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

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Irish

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Havner, Vance

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

Fields, W. C.

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

10.

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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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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

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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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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

Schefer, L.

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

Fields, W. C.

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

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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

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Rabelais, Francois

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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I drink to make other people interesting.

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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