Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

11.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

19.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

20.

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

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

22.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

23.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

24.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

25.

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.

26.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

31.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Selden, John

34.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

35.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

36.

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

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Yeats, William Butler

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

45.

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.

46.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Schefer, L.

50.

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