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

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

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

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Havner, Vance

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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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

23.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

24.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.

Washington, Denzel

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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

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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

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

Schefer, L.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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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

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

32.

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

33.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Selden, John

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

39.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Herbert, George

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

44.

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

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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.

46.

And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?

Watson, Sir William

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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

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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

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich