William Lyon Mackenzie Quotes

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

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.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

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.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

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.

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

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.