George Thorogood Quotes

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of.

You can make people do anything if they're afraid.

If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head

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

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.