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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Farquhar, George

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Rabelais, Francois

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

14.

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

Fields, W. C.

15.

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.

16.

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''

17.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

24.

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

25.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

26.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

29.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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