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

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

Kerr, Jean

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

10.

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

11.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Herbert, George

21.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Yeats, William Butler

24.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

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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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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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

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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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I drink to make other people interesting.

30.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

41.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

42.

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

Squire, John

43.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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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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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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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.