“Definition of my alcoholism One was too many and twenty was not enough.” — Johnny Mack Copy Share Image
“My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“You are giving up nothing! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.” — Liz Hemingway Copy Share Image
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Earth is necessity, not Mars. Food and water are necessities, not alcohol and cigarettes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I have a very powerful form of alcoholism. I finally gave up and accepted the fact that if I even smell too… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how fearless you can be when you want something bad enough, the lengths to which you'll go, the grit you'll… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“influence on the development of AA was substantial. As Bill Wilson wrote in Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, “The important thing is… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
“Jesus shook his head slowly from side to side, then thrust his left hand deep into Santa’s sack. Out came something resembling… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“We are all spiritually powerless, however, and not just those physically addicted to a substance, which is why I address this book… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“It used to be that each time you fell in love, the effort of loving released in you the energy to hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski 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