Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!

- Crowley, Aleister

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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

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

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

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

10.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

11.

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

Fielding, Henry

12.

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

13.

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Watson, Sir William

19.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

21.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

22.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

23.

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

24.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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

26.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

Fields, W. C.

29.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

30.

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

Farquhar, George

31.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

32.

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

Fields, W. C.

34.

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

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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

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

Bible

37.

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

Squire, John

38.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

39.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

43.

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

44.

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

45.

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

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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

47.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

Proverb, Irish

49.

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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.