Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Schefer, L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.

Cobb, Irvin S.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

11.

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

12.

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

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

Fielding, Henry

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Rabelais, Francois

17.

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

Fields, W. C.

18.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

19.

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

20.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

21.

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

Lee, Robert E.

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

24.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

26.

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

Selden, John

27.

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

Havner, Vance

28.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

29.

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

Kerr, Jean

30.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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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Washington, Denzel

38.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

40.

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

Watson, Sir William

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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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

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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

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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''

48.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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.

50.

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

Squire, John