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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

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

Schefer, L.

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

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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.

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

12.

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

Fields, W. C.

13.

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

Herbert, George

14.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Aldrich, Henry

15.

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

Farquhar, George

16.

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''

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

21.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

22.

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

23.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Lee, Robert E.

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

28.

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

Kerr, Jean

29.

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

Yeats, William Butler

30.

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

Bunuel, Luis

31.

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

32.

I drink to make other people interesting.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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.

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

38.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

39.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

40.

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

41.

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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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

43.

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

Selden, John

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

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