Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Selden, John

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Fielding, Henry

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Selden, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Rabelais, Francois

18.

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

Bible

20.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

21.

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

Proverb, Irish

22.

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

23.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

Bunuel, Luis

26.

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

Squire, John

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

30.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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

32.

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

Yeats, William Butler

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Herbert, George

38.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe 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.

40.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

41.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

42.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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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

44.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

45.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

46.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Fields, W. C.