Francois Rabelais Quotes

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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.

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

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...'

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world

God slaps you around a little bit when you drink too much.

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.

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe.

I drink to forget I drink.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

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.

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

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.