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

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

Epictetus

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

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

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

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.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

10.

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

Fielding, Henry

11.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

12.

I drink to make other people interesting.

13.

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

Bunuel, Luis

14.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Lee, Robert E.

21.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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

Herbert, George

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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

26.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schefer, L.

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

33.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Squire, John

40.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

42.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Farquhar, George

44.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

Fields, W. C.

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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