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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

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.

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

Squire, John

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

16.

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

17.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

20.

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

21.

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

Havner, Vance

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Fields, W. C.

25.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

26.

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

Fielding, Henry

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Yeats, William Butler

32.

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

33.

I drink to make other people interesting.

34.

Washington, Denzel

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

Kerr, Jean

41.

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.

42.

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

Watson, Sir William

43.

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

Selden, John

44.

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

45.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

47.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

48.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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

Rabelais, Francois

50.

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