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

1.

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

2.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

3.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

5.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

6.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

7.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

8.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

9.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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.

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

12.

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

13.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

14.

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

15.

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

Squire, John

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.

17.

I drink to make other people interesting.

18.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Bunuel, Luis

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

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

23.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

25.

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

Yeats, William Butler

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Schefer, L.

32.

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.

33.

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

Watson, Sir William

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

Rabelais, Francois

36.

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

37.

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

Herbert, George

38.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Selden, John

40.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

41.

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

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

48.

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

Fields, W. C.

49.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

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