Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Yeats, William Butler

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

10.

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

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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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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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.

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

16.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

17.

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

Selden, John

18.

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

Schefer, L.

19.

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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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

21.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

23.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

24.

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

Watson, Sir William

25.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Bible

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

Kerr, Jean

30.

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

31.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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''

33.

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

34.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Fielding, Henry

38.

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

Fields, W. C.

39.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

40.

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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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

42.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Irish

45.

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

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

49.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

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