Quotes on Alcoholism

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

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

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

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

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

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

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