Alcohol use disorder Quotes

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

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right.

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

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 was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

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.

It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".

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

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

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.