Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Rabelais, Francois

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

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

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

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

Watson, Sir William

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Rabelais, Francois

19.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

21.

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.

22.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

23.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

28.

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

29.

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

Schefer, L.

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

35.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

36.

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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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.

38.

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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

42.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

44.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bunuel, Luis

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!

Stewart, Eliza ''Mother''

49.

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

Fields, W. C.

50.

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