Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Squire, John

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Herbert, George

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

Selden, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

20.

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

Fields, W. C.

21.

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.

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

Kerr, Jean

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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''

32.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Mencken, H. L.

36.

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

37.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

38.

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

Havner, Vance

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

43.

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

Watson, Sir William

44.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

45.

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

Fielding, Henry

46.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

47.

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

48.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.