Limmy Quotes

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

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

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

My relationship in the past with alcohol has been both good fun and unhealthy.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

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

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

In the back of my mind for many years, I had always felt that my relationship with alcohol, although seemingly harmless was unhealthy and somewhat destructive.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I drink to forget I drink.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.