Cass McCombs Quotes

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Maintaining your hydration status is probably the most important thing, along with rest, that you can do with a hangover.

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

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

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

It used to take a day to get over the partying. But I don't party anymore. I don't miss it, either.

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.

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

I don't drink at all.

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

I don't even drink.

There isn't just one way to get healthy and sober and to stop using.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.