1.
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
Anton Chekhov
2.
Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar Khayyam
3.
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.
Diana Trilling
5.
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
Kay Boyle
6.
Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.
Mason Cooley
9.
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
Terence McKenna
11.
Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.
Jennifer Stone
12.
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
Roy Blount, Jr.
13.
anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
Caitlin Thomas
14.
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.
Craig Benzine