Fred Allen Quotes

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I drink to forget I drink.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

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

Beer would be a great help in fighting off the mental depression which afflicts great multitudes.

I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.