Alcoholics Quotes - Page 3

• When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Drinking, Animal

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Admiration, Alcoholics Anonymous, Phenomenon

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I became a terrible drunk or alcoholic - or a good one depending on your point of view.

  Craig Ferguson

  Views, Drunk, Point Of View

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• Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Today, Ifs

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• The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

  David Wilkerson

  Girl, Country, Women

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• My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

  Jim Carrey

  Christmas, Daughter, Mother

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• Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.

  Martin Sheen

  Humor, Golf, Boys

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

  Betty Ford

  Humor, Makeup, Alcohol

  Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1987). “Betty: A Glad Awakening”, Doubleday Books

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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• Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

  Kevin Bacon

  Cute, Done, Diners

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• I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.

  McLean Stevenson

  Thinking, Lunch Break, Beverages

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• Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Country, Appreciation, Mean

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• I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

  Josh McDowell

  Father, Hatred

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• I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

  Neil Young

  Song, Time, One Day

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• Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

  Bette Davis

  Hate, Fall, Wine

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• Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

  Carrie Nation

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

  Herbert Bayard Swope

  Failure, Recovery, Trying

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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Alcohol, Liquor Funny

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

  Henny Youngman

  Good Life, Grandma, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Recovery

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• I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Drinking, Happy Friday

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• I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  In Corey Ford Time of Laughter (1970) p. 182

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• The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Differences, Addiction

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.

  Bill Murray

  Years, Two, My Birthday

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• To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Stars, Children, Party

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