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

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

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

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 piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

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

Rabelais, Francois

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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.

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

16.

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

Bunuel, Luis

17.

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

Schefer, L.

18.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

19.

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

20.

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

Watson, Sir William

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

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

Herbert, George

23.

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

Lee, Robert E.

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

26.

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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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.

28.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

30.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

31.

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

32.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

33.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Selden, John

34.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

35.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

38.

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

Fields, W. C.

39.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

40.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

41.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

42.

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

Farquhar, George

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Havner, Vance

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.