Alcoholic Quotes

An alcoholic is someone who you do not like who drinks as much as you do. (Dylan Thomas)
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times. View quote
George Saintsbury
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man... begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker. View quote
Chelsea Handler
People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man does not drive, there is something wrong with him. (Art Buchwald)
I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" View quote
Alice Cooper
Delirium tremens in a drunk alcoholic are an unmistakable symptom, but those intoxicated with theories are easily mistaken for geniuses. View quote
Samael Aun Weor
Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really. View quote
Robin Williams
And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got. View quote
Paul Gascoigne
I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home. View quote
Kenny Hickey
I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break. View quote
McLean Stevenson
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods. (Michael Koryta)
The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda. View quote
Pete Coors
I am a recovering alcoholic. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic. View quote
Paul Lynde
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. View quote
Sherwood Boehlert