Controlled Drinking Quotes

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

If one must drink, then let one drink thrice a month, for more is bad. If one gets drunk twice a month, it is better; if one gets drunk once a month, that is better still; and if one doesn't drink at all, that is the best of all.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

I don’t drink anymore - just the same amount.

I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.

I'm one of those guys who will drink to, uh, kind of celebrate. I don't drink too much when I'm down or anything like that. But you've really got to be, I guess the word that came to mind is "creative," about the way you're celebrating. You want to keep the celebration going. I've learned that lesson over and over. Here on the road there's a lot of cause for celebration, but you just gotta get the damper out a little bit, and you want to keep that governor on. You want to keep your give-a-shitter in kick.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.