Best Alcoholism Sayings

108 Alcoholism quotes by 91 unique authors

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. — Anton Chekhov
One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize… — Jack Dee
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions… — Vance Havner
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability… — Pema Chodron
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and… — Tom McCall
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek… — Joseph Jaworski
Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is really asking for… — Charles McGrath
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. — Robin Williams
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. — Robert Frost
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. — Thomas Fuller
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. — Thomas Fuller
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. — Charles Dickens
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary,… — Marguerite Duras
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. — Marguerite Duras
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of… — Marguerite Duras
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is… — Marguerite Duras
He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. — Epictetus
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. — W.C. Fields
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming. — W.C. Fields
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. — W.C. Fields
I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. — W.C. Fields
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. — George Herbert
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. — William James

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