Dwight Yoakam Quotes

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

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

It is not the multitude of ale-houses ... that occasions a general disposition to drunkenness among the common people; but that disposition, arising from other causes, necessarily gives employment to a multitude of ale-houses

A drunk man is capable of every evil and prone to every temptation… Drinking renders its adherent incapable of any task

To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking and drug use, if people can do it and not hurt themselves. But it got to the point where I was really hurting myself.

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.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.

I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of.

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

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

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

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.