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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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 drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Aldrich, Henry

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

Barach, Alvan L.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Selden, John

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

Herbert, George

12.

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

13.

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

Havner, Vance

14.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

17.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

20.

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

21.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

25.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

26.

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.

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

Schefer, L.

28.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

29.

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

30.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

34.

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

Yeats, William Butler

35.

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

Farquhar, George

36.

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

Proverb, Irish

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

42.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

43.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

Fields, W. C.

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Kerr, Jean

46.

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

Bunuel, Luis

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

50.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark