Impairment Quotes

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

I drink to make other people interesting.

It (masturbation) is called … ‘beastliness’, and this is about the best name for it…. Should it become a habit, it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends up in a lunatic asylum.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than having a smash sober.

I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

I love a drink. But I've never, ever in my life been on a stage and done a performance with an alcoholic drink inside me. Never have, never would. I've seen people who do and invariably they're never as good as they think they are.