Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

I have a very powerful form of alcoholism. I finally gave up and accepted the fact that if I even smell too much booze, I'm going to start drinking again. That's just how I am.

I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

While we may have taken away some of the criminal element when we repealed prohibition, we certainly didn't solve the problem of alcoholism.

I refer to the fact, acknowledged now by all professionals in the field, that alcoholism as such is not a legal problem—it is a health problem.

If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.