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

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

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

Epictetus

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Schefer, L.

11.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

Lee, Robert E.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

I drink to make other people interesting.

19.

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

Selden, John

20.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

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

22.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Fields, W. C.

24.

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

Rabelais, Francois

25.

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

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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.

27.

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

Kerr, Jean

28.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

Watson, Sir William

30.

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

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

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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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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

34.

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.

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Fielding, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Bible

44.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

45.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

Farquhar, George

48.

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

49.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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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