Jeffrey Bernard Quotes

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

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

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

I am a recovering alcoholic.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

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

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.