Alcohol Quotes - Page 9

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution!

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

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

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

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

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun