W. C. Fields Quotes

It's a wonderful thing, the D.T.'s. You can travel the world in a couple of hours. You see some mighty funny and curious things that come in assorted colors.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

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.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil--and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

My relationship in the past with alcohol has been both good fun and unhealthy.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Amy Winehouse's mother wrote an open letter to the News of the World newspaper telling Amy she's worried about her and to please call her. I doubt this is the best way to communicate with Amy - she should try spelling it out in lines of cocaine.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.