Alcoholics Quotes

• Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Jail, People

  "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.

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  An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

  Dylan Thomas

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations quoted by Nigel Rees. Fontana London (1987)

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• Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Alcohol, Waiting, Drug

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

  Don Young

  Responsibility, Cookies, Want

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• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didnt want to see my kids do the same thing

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Kids, Addiction

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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  Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Money, Humor

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

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• Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sick, Chic, Disgusting

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• Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

  Gerard Way

  Drinking, Coffee, Smoking

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• I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, World

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

  Henny Youngman

  Crazy, Drinking, Reading

  Quoted in Rocky Mountain News, 15 July 1994

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• If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

  Bill W.

  People, Actors, Double Life

  Bill W., Dick B (2011). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

  Michael Robotham

  Alcoholics Anonymous, Aa Recovery, Hostage

  Michael Robotham (2006). “Lost: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Years, Dollars, Beverages

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• People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

  Ron White

  Humor, People, Alcohol

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• There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dad, Father, Alcohol

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• 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

  Dope, Men, People

  "Have I Ever Lied to You?". Book by Art Buchwald, 1968.

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• In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Vision, Spiritual Experience

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• The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

  Charlie Sheen

  Winning, Alcoholics Anonymous, Warlocks

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• 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.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Insanity, Disease, Human Condition

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

  Carre Otis

  Anorexia, Demand, Disease

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• 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.

  Maurice Gibb

  Appreciation, Children, Trust No One

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

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