Thomas Jordan Jarvis Quotes

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

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

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

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.

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.'

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

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

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

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

I need you to read more and drink less.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

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.

I drink to forget I drink.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

What's the point of staying sober?

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

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.