Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Masson, Thomas L.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Rabelais, Francois

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.

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Fields, W. C.

11.

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

12.

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.

14.

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

Yeats, William Butler

15.

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

Herbert, George

17.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

18.

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

Squire, John

19.

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

Schefer, L.

20.

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

Lee, Robert E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

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

Watson, Sir William

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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

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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

28.

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

29.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

Bible

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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

33.

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

34.

I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

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

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Barkley, Alben W.

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I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Reed, Oliver

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

Selden, John

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

Fields, W. C.

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Russell, Bertrand

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 drink to make other people interesting.