Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Yeats, William Butler

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''

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

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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

11.

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

12.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

13.

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

14.

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

Havner, Vance

15.

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

16.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

17.

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.

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

24.

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

Herbert, George

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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.

28.

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

Lee, Robert E.

29.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

36.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

37.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

40.

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

Fields, W. C.

41.

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.

42.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

43.

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

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.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

46.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.