Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

- Russell, Bertrand

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Johnson, Samuel

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

14.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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

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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

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

Herbert, George

19.

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

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.

21.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

22.

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.

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Selden, John

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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

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

Schefer, L.

29.

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

30.

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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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

32.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

36.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

40.

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

Squire, John

41.

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

Rabelais, Francois

42.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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.

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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