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Alcohol and alcoholism

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

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

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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

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

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Epictetus

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Rabelais, Francois

11.

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

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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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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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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

30.

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

Schefer, L.

31.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

32.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Masson, Thomas L.

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fields, W. C.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Proverb, Irish

38.

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

Barach, Alvan L.

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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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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

42.

Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.

Nathan, George Jean

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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.

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

Herbert, George

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The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Bogart, Humphrey