Alcoholics Quotes · Page 5

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

— Mariska Hargitay

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

— Karl Kraus

Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!

— Frankie Boyle

I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.

— Steven Tyler

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink, I think female alcoholics should be told not to fuck.

— George Carlin

My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.

— Anne Lamott

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

— Anonymous

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

— Bill W

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your…

— Gary Oldman

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.

— Stephen Colbert

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky…

— Sloane Crosley

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs…

— Gail Carriger

Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.

— Patti Smith

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

— Clive James

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

“At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense…

— Edward St. Aubyn

Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes…

— Stanton Peele

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I…

— Gary Oldman

“People think alcoholics are violent. They don't hold down jobs or they're out drinking every night. No offense to the people who…

— Nyrae Dawn

I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even…

— Rick Perry

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer…

— Sherwood Boehlert

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through…

— Michael Koryta

I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's…

— Moby

“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is…

— Lance Dodes

“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the…

— Lance Dodes

I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.

— McLean Stevenson

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

— Michel Houellebecq

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.

— Katie Taylor

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

— Carrie Nation

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

— Anonymous

Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

— Maya Angelou

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

— H. L. Mencken

Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.

— Michael Josephson

I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's

— Dave Dutton

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

— Carrie Fisher

I used to be a partier, now I'm an alcoholic. It's all in who's judging you.

— Doug Stanhope

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

— Truman Capote

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

— Gordon Strachan