Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Lewis, Joe E.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Farquhar, George

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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''

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

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

Selden, John

10.

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

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

13.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

16.

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

Herbert, George

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

21.

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

Kerr, Jean

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Squire, John

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bunuel, Luis

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

32.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

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

Rabelais, Francois

38.

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.

39.

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

Watson, Sir William

40.

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

Havner, Vance

41.

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

42.

I drink to make other people interesting.

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

44.

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

Yeats, William Butler

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

Schefer, L.

50.

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