Alcoholism Quotes - Page 3

• I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

  Oscar Levant

  Drinking, Beer, Funny Sarcastic

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

  Lord Byron

  Laughter, Drinking, Food

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 2, st. 178

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Drunk

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 389 (24 April 1779)

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• Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  "Reflection on Ice-breaking" l. 1 (1931)

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• I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fall, Drinking

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.88, Library of America

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• 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 of dollars a year to spread.

  Vance Havner

  Tired, Years, Alcohol

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• It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

  George Burns

  Clever, Drinking, Drunk

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• Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Alcohol, Done

  "The Temperance Lecture" (radio broadcast) (1938)

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• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  Robert Frost

  Business, Drinking, Alcohol

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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

  Happiness, Beer, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)

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• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Water

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• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

  Omar Khayyam

  Drinking, Drink, Knows

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.198, University of Virginia Press

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• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

  William Shakespeare

  Alcohol, Desire, Mars

  Macbeth II. 3

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• He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Glasses, Drunk

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.372

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• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Alcohol, Cleaning

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 49 (The Gentleman in the Small-clothes)

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• It pays to get drunk with the best people.

  Joe E. Lewis

  People, Drunk, Alcohol

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Real, Drinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wine, Alcohol, Treacherous

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• 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 conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Crush, Creative

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.46, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

  Truman Capote

  Drinking, Alcohol, Drug

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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