Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

- Schefer, L.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Herbert, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fields, W. C.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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

Behan, Brendan F.

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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

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

Kerr, Jean

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Rabelais, Francois

17.

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

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

Squire, John

19.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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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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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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I drink to make other people interesting.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Lee, Robert E.

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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.

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There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

38.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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

Barach, Alvan L.

40.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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

Havner, Vance

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.

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

44.

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

45.

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

Selden, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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