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

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

Schefer, L.

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

Bible

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Lee, Robert E.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

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

10.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

12.

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''

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

17.

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

18.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

19.

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

20.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

21.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

22.

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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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

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Yeats, William Butler

29.

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

Farquhar, George

30.

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

31.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

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

33.

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

Kerr, Jean

34.

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

35.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

36.

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

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Squire, John

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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

Fields, W. C.

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