David Strickland Quotes

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

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

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.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

I hate drugs. I drank a beer once and threw up.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

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.

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.

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.

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

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

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

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

Make no mistake, liquor is as much a part of the problem as drugs, perhaps a bigger part.

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

Most of the males have a strong passion for strong drink, especially rum.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

I'm on a whisky diet... last week, I lost three days!

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

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.