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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fields, W. C.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

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

Schefer, L.

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''

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

10.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

11.

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

12.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

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.

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

17.

I drink to make other people interesting.

18.

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

19.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

20.

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

Bunuel, Luis

21.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

22.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

24.

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

Herbert, George

25.

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

26.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

29.

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

Farquhar, George

30.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

31.

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

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Fielding, Henry

36.

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

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.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

41.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

42.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

44.

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

Rabelais, Francois

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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

Selden, John

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius