I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.” — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Earth is necessity, not Mars. Food and water are necessities, not alcohol and cigarettes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.” — Hannibal Lecture Copy Share Image
“I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself with sex. the bottle is damned faithful,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It’s up to… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
“Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
“An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect.… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
“It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual… — Bill W Copy Share Image
“A sudden, uncontrollable fury rose in him, and he cast around for something to smash. He snatched the whiskey bottle from the… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“AA began as a nonprofessional attempt to grapple with the alcoholism of its founders. It arose and took its famous twelve steps… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that was just a hunch." Barbee shivered again. He knew that he himself possessed what he called the "nose for news"… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“i could tell that the speed was affecting my heart rate and i could only sleep for a couple of hours at… — Karen Kilgariff Copy Share Image
“In Alcoholics Anonymous they say you need to have faith in a higher power to help you overcome your addictions. You can’t… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink!… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
“Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I can hear myself whining again 'Why does God torture me?' - But anybody who's never had a delirium tremens even in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism. — Craig Benzine Copy Share Image
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image