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

1.

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

Johnson, Samuel

2.

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

3.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

4.

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

5.

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

Fields, W. C.

6.

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

Fields, W. C.

7.

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

8.

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

Selden, John

9.

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

Schefer, L.

10.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

14.

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

Watson, Sir William

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

18.

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

Fielding, Henry

19.

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

Herbert, George

20.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

21.

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

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Lee, Robert E.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Havner, Vance

27.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Farquhar, George

34.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

35.

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

36.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

I drink to make other people interesting.

41.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

43.

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

Fields, W. C.

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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.

47.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark