Alcoholism Quotes · Page 7

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

— Robert Frost

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

— Ingrid Bengis

“If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when…

— Vicki Covington

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between one's immediate desires and long-learned morality.”

— Jack London

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

— Kay Boyle

“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an…

— Mitch Hedberg

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect…

— Mercedes McCambridge

Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that…

— Dom Irrera

“People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still…

— Chris Prentiss

“Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor -…

— Joan Didion

I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's…

— Justin Chatwin

“Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out…

— Belinda G. Buchanan

“Father Dmitry had thought he had been serving his nation by spreading trust, and fighting abortion and despair, but, in doing so,…

— Oliver Bullough

“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

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink!…

— Mercedes McCambridge

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“i could tell that the speed was affecting my heart rate and i could only sleep for a couple of hours at…

— Karen Kilgariff

“When he was a kid, it used to feel like his parents disappeared when the got drunk. As the levels of their…

— Liane Moriarty

“No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or…

— Anonymous

“Logan couldn’t remember when a few drinks became a bottle and then two bottles every night. He couldn’t point to one single…

— JD Ruskin

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

— Anonymous

If alcoholism is considered a disease. Then shouldn't you be able to call off work drunk

— Myself

My alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive…

— Tony Adams

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

— Mercedes McCambridge

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have…

— Malachy McCourt

“If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.”

— Grace W. Wroldson

“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity”

— Roddy Doyle

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects…

— Chris Wooding

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme…

— Sanna Lenken

Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.

— Davinia Taylor

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

— John Gay

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family,…

— Barry Hannah

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

— Marguerite Duras

“Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to…

— Joan Bauer

“[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the…

— David Carr

The support I've had from all Latin people, and Mexico especially, has allowed me to conquer my alcoholism.

— Jose Jose