It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Harold S. Geneen Copy Share Image
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“Alcoholism is...an incurable disease. You will have it for life. Just like you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber.” — Hideo Azuma Copy Share Image
“Earth is necessity, not Mars. Food and water are necessities, not alcohol and cigarettes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
“After all these years, his best friend is malaria. Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep… — Louis Bayard Copy Share Image
“...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“I'll never amount to anything—well anything my parents want, so instead I’ll end up puking and drinking till I’m blind drunk, It’s… — P.A. Bitez Copy Share Image
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly,… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“He starts to tell Isaac about his sobriety, but something stops him. Like if he speaks the words aloud he’ll jinx it.… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
“He panted over me, winded by his own absurd lecture. The stench of his alcoholic breath stung my nose. Again I didn’t… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In far Eastern Russia, there's just some towns that time has forgotten. I guess they used to maybe be industrial or something… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
When someone tells me that they insist on having drinks with me, and there are some cultures where sealing the deal or… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
“You're walking down Fool's Street, Laura used to say when he was drinking, and she had been right. He had known even… — Robert F. Young Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
“By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that… — Alice Sebold 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
“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
There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic. — Ingrid Bengis 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
“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it… — Irene Tomkinson Copy Share Image
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not… — Liz Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much about breaking free of him, as it was about breaking free of me.” — Grace W. Wroldson 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
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism. — Craig Benzine 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
“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
“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