Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Fields, W. C.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Squire, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barkley, Alben W.

10.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

11.

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

12.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

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''

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

19.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

29.

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

Selden, John

30.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

32.

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

Rabelais, Francois

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Watson, Sir William

37.

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

Kerr, Jean

38.

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

39.

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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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

42.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Fields, W. C.

46.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bible

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.