Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

- Reed, Oliver

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fields, W. C.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barkley, Alben W.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Havner, Vance

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

11.

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

12.

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

Schefer, L.

13.

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

Kerr, Jean

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

19.

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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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

21.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

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

Lee, Robert E.

23.

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

24.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

25.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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.

Duras, Marguerite

27.

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

28.

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

Fielding, Henry

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

31.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Fields, W. C.

32.

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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

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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''

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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

37.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

38.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

39.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

43.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

46.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

47.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

Farquhar, George

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