Bill Wilson Quotes

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

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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

My definition of sobriety is to be in full control and not feel drunk, but it's not abstaining for religious reasons or any other reason.

I didn't drink for two years.

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

I don't even drink.

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 had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

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

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

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.

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

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

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.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

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

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

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