Denis Leary Quotes

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

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

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

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.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

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.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.

Yes I drink, but at least I don't drink blood!

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

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

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

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.