Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Behan, Brendan F.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

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

15.

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

Selden, John

16.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

17.

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

18.

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

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.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

21.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

22.

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

23.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

Schefer, L.

25.

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

Kerr, Jean

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

Havner, Vance

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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''

38.

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.

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.

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

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.