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

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

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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''

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

Watson, Sir 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.

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

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

10.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

11.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

12.

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

Bible

13.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

18.

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

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 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

21.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

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

Fields, W. C.

23.

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

24.

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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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.

26.

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

Yeats, William Butler

27.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

30.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

37.

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

38.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

39.

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

Proverb, Irish

40.

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

Selden, John

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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

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

I drink to make other people interesting.

44.

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

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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