Alcohol Quotes - Page 3

When he saw what drugs or alcohol or unwanted pregnancy did to kids he fell in love with, he realized there had to be a straight path

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.