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

1.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

3.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

4.

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

5.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

6.

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

Fields, W. C.

7.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

8.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

9.

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

Yeats, William Butler

10.

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

11.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

13.

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

Kerr, Jean

14.

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

Watson, Sir William

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

Rabelais, Francois

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Lee, Robert E.

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

26.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Herbert, George

27.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Farquhar, George

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Bunuel, Luis

33.

I drink to make other people interesting.

34.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

35.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

36.

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

37.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

40.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

41.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

42.

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

Squire, John

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

46.

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

Schefer, L.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Fields, W. C.

50.

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