Joe E. Lewis Quotes

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life!.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

The white traders keep these poor Indians continually under the force of liquor. They entirely estrange the affections of the Indians from the English.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Liquor traffic is un-American, pro-German, crime-procuring, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

The benefit of drinking alcohol is very minimal and the harm of it is as bad as what a knife can do.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.