Best Alcoholism Quotations
108 Alcoholism quotes by 91 unique authors
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
— Samuel Johnson
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
— Samuel Johnson
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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
— Robert E. Lee
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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now.…
— Spike Lee
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
— H. L. Mencken
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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
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
— Plautus
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
— Walter Scott
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
— Jonathan Swift
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I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or…
— Jesse Ventura
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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
— Simone Weil
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
— Lord Byron
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I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal…
— Cornel West
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Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it…
— Craig Ferguson
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Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those…
— Craig Ferguson
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The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover,…
— Adolf Hitler
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
— John Milton
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Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages…
— Chris Wooding
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Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.…
— Unknown Author
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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers…
— Sharon Olds
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I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
— Liza Minnelli
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We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave -…
— Stephen Bennett
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We live in a time when the values of courage and honesty, particularly for women writers, equate to confessing only the darkest, most painful parts…
— Rebecca
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