Betty Ford Quotes

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

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 love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

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

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

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

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.