Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rabelais, Francois

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

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

10.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

13.

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.

14.

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

Fielding, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Schefer, L.

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

24.

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

25.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

Selden, John

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

31.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

33.

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.

34.

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

Fields, W. C.

35.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

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

Yeats, William Butler

38.

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

Fields, W. C.

39.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

42.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

47.

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.

48.

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

Epictetus

49.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

50.

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

Kerr, Jean