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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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.

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

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Churchill, Winston

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

10.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

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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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.

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

Fields, W. C.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Watson, Sir William

22.

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

23.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

Proverb, Irish

26.

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

Schefer, L.

27.

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

Herbert, George

28.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

30.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

Fields, W. C.

32.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Bunuel, Luis

36.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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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

38.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Lee, Robert E.

44.

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

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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''

46.

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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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

48.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

49.

I drink to make other people interesting.

50.

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

Fields, W. C.