Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

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.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

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.

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

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

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

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

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

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.

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

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

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