Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bible

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Selden, John

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

10.

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

11.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Herbert, George

15.

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

Proverb, Irish

16.

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

Behan, Brendan F.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

23.

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

Bunuel, Luis

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Schefer, L.

28.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

29.

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

Watson, Sir William

30.

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

Squire, John

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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.

35.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

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

Fields, W. C.

39.

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

Farquhar, George

40.

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.

41.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

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

43.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Kerr, Jean

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

50.

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