Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

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''

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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

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

Schefer, L.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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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

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Bible

15.

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

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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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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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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

39.

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

Squire, John

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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

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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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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

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Never accept a drink from a Urologist.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Behan, Brendan F.