Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

I'm not so think as you drunk I am.

- Squire, John

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

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

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fields, W. C.

10.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

15.

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.

16.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

17.

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

Proverb, Irish

18.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

21.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

24.

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

Bunuel, Luis

25.

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

Herbert, George

26.

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

Fields, W. C.

27.

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

28.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

Schefer, L.

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

36.

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

Havner, Vance

37.

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

38.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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.

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

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

Lee, Robert E.

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

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

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.