Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

- Seneca

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Epictetus

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

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

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

15.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

16.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

17.

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

Selden, John

18.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

19.

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

20.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

23.

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

Lee, Robert E.

24.

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

25.

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

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

28.

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

29.

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

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Squire, John

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

37.

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

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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

39.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

40.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

41.

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

Farquhar, George

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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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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''

45.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

46.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

47.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.