Top Alcoholic Quotes

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking, but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are...

Alcoholic Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

(n.) A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

(n.) Alcoholic liquors.

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to...

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

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

I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demora...

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself

Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?''Oh, rather!''What do you do about it?''I generally take a couple of cocktails.

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

you never know u r drunk until u wake up with a dickhead in the morning.

Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic?

At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches of aspens and pines. A hard wind blows snow up out of a cavern and over my face...