Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

1.

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

Yeats, William Butler

2.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

3.

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

4.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

5.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

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

12.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

14.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

15.

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

16.

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

Fielding, Henry

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

19.

I drink to make other people interesting.

20.

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

Selden, John

21.

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

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Bunuel, Luis

24.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

25.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

Proverb, Irish

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

31.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

32.

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

33.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

38.

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

39.

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

Lee, Robert E.

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

42.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

45.

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

46.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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 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

49.

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

Farquhar, George

50.

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

Mencken, H. L.