Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

- Twain, Mark

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Bible

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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.

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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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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Squire, John

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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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

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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Churchill, Winston

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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Schefer, L.

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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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

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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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

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

Selden, John

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

Watson, Sir William