Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

- Swift, Jonathan

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Barthes, Roland

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

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

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

16.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

17.

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

18.

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

Yeats, William Butler

19.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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

Fielding, Henry

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

31.

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

32.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Schefer, L.

34.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Herbert, George

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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