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

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

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

Fields, W. C.

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

Bible

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Watson, Sir William

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.

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

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

10.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

Schefer, L.

16.

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

Fields, W. C.

17.

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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Rabelais, Francois

21.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I drink to make other people interesting.

25.

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

Bunuel, Luis

26.

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

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

29.

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''

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Squire, John

34.

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

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

36.

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

Lee, Robert E.

37.

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.

38.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

39.

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

Selden, John

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, Irish

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

46.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

47.

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

48.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

49.

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

50.

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

Barach, Alvan L.