Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Bible

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

11.

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

Herbert, George

12.

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

Yeats, William Butler

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

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

Fields, W. C.

20.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

21.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

22.

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.

23.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Bunuel, Luis

28.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

29.

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

30.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

32.

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

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.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

38.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

39.

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

40.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

41.

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

42.

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Watson, Sir William

44.

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

Schefer, L.

45.

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''

46.

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

Selden, John

47.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Dunne, Finley Peter

48.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

50.

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