Alcoholism Quotes - Page 5

• The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Cost Of Living, Alcohol

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

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• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

  George Herbert

  Glasses, Alcohol, Drink

  'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

  Aleister Crowley

  Running, Alcohol, Risk

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

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• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Trust, Water, Alcohol

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• I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughing, Alcohol, Usual

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.83

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• I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

  Vance Havner

  Order, Alcohol, Church

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• I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Men, Alcohol, Next

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• Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

  Diana Trilling

  Pathology, Ruling, Drunkenness

  Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

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• If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

  William James

  Feel Good, Alcohol, Feelings

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lecture 1, p. 16

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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

  Party, Talking, Alcohol

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hope, Sunshine, Goals Dreams

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2033, e-artnow

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• My mother is still battling alcoholism.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Mother, Stills

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Believe, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Tuberculosis, Poison, Disease

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.

  Marguerite Duras

  Alcohol, Gaps, Psychological

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

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• There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Alcohol, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.199, Penguin

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• Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

  Denise Juneau

  Children, Home, School

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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, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Giving, Hatred

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• [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

  Rebecca West

  Cute, Sick, Made

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• Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

  Caroline Knapp

  Single Mom, Simple, Air

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press

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• Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

  Mason Cooley

  Anxiety, Alcohol

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• Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing.

  Nancy Astor

  Drinking, Giving, Promise

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• My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.

  Melissa Febos

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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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 things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

  Jesse Ventura

  Thinking, Decision, Drug

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