Alcoholics Quotes

• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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  An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

  Dylan Thomas

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations quoted by Nigel Rees. Fontana London (1987)

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• Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Alcohol, Waiting, Drug

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

  Ann Landers

  Drinking, Swimming, Beer

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• Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

  Carrie Nation

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

  Don Young

  Responsibility, Cookies, Want

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• What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

  Ronnie Wood

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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• The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Bottles, Whiskey

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• It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

  George Saintsbury

  Beauty, Drinking, Race

  George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Admiration, Alcoholics Anonymous, Phenomenon

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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 rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Drinking, Animal

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

  Bill W.

  People, Actors, Double Life

  Bill W., Dick B (2011). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

  Betty Ford

  Humor, Makeup, Alcohol

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1987). “Betty: A Glad Awakening”, Doubleday Books

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• Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

  Martin Sheen

  Humor, Golf, Boys

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Today, Ifs

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• My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

  Jim Carrey

  Christmas, Daughter, Mother

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• The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

  David Wilkerson

  Girl, Country, Women

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Careers, Acting, Judgment

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• I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.

  McLean Stevenson

  Thinking, Lunch Break, Beverages

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• I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

  Josh McDowell

  Father, Hatred

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• Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Country, Appreciation, Mean

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• I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

  Neil Young

  Song, Time, One Day

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• Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

  Kevin Bacon

  Cute, Done, Diners

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