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

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Bible

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Johnson, Samuel

I drink to make other people interesting.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Fielding, Henry

10.

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

Watson, Sir William

11.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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Washington, Denzel

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

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.

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

18.

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

Lee, Robert E.

19.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

20.

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

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Herbert, George

24.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

25.

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

Bunuel, Luis

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

28.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

29.

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

Fields, W. C.

30.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

33.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Fields, W. C.

37.

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

Squire, John

38.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

39.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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.

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.

42.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

44.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

45.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

46.

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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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

48.

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

Fields, W. C.

49.

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

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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