Alcohol/alcoholism Quotes

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

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.

Dean Martin

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

Dean Martin

Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.

Ogden Nash

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A.E. Housman

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

A.E. Housman

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

Plautus

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

Thomas L. Masson

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.

Vance Havner

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

Vance Havner

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

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!

Aleister Crowley

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

Samuel Butler

We live for the nights we'll never remember with the people we'll never forget.this quotation was submitted to Quoteland by Daryl Slaughter

Anon.

A boy is invincible. Then he drinks and drives and he finds out that his friend isn't.

Anon.

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

John Selden

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.

Roland Barthes

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

Sir William Temple

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

Henry Fielding