Rod Stewart Quotes

Hollywood is a coke town, but weed is so much better. And Molly, too; those are happy drugs - social drugs. They make you want to be with friends. You're out in the open. You're not in a bathroom.

I did a little bit of cocaine in the Eighties, courtesy of John Belushi, but fortunately I didn’t like it. But I smoked marijuana for 50 years and I don’t know where I’d be without it. It opened my mind and now it eases my arthritis. After decades of research I’ve concluded that marijuana should be legal and alcohol illegal.

Do not drink wine, for it is the root of all evil.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.

The current dominant opinion supporting the war on drugs in general, and our anti-marijuana laws in particular, is reminiscent of the opinion that supported the nationwide ban on alcohol consumption when I was a student. While alcoholic beverages are now regarded as ordinary articles of commerce, their use was then condemned with the same moral fervor that now supports the war on drugs.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

This is a war between the rum shops and women…only one can win.

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

Mrs. Hayes has been from childhood a total abstainer. I was not a total abstainer when I became President. But the discussions which arose over the change at the President's house soon satisfied me that in this matter, if our example was to be useful, there was no half-way house for me. During the greater part of my term and at least for the last three years, I have been in practice and in theory a total-abstinence man, and I shall continue to be so. All statements inconsistent with the foregoing are without foundation.

I've never been a big fan of interdiction. Let's imagine for a minute that you could stop all drugs coming into the United States—all heroin, all cocaine. Synthetic drugs would take over within two months.

I know of nothing you can sell where you can make a greater profit than drugs—if you survive.

I grew up in the streets of Pueblo [Colorado]. I never knew marijuana was illegal,

Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

I have a glass of wine. Red. Generally when I'm cooking.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.