Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Watson, Sir William

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Epictetus

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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Bible

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

11.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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

16.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

17.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

19.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

25.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

28.

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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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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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.

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I drink to make other people interesting.

33.

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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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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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

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

Kerr, Jean

38.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

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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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

45.

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.

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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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Selden, John

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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.