Alcoholism is a devastating, potentially fatal disease. The primary symptom of having it is telling everyone--including yourself--that you are not an alcoholic.
HERBERT L. GRAVITZ & JULIE D. BOWDEN, Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, The Big Book
The contrast which exists between the abstemious man and the drunkard is this--the former governs his affairs, but the affairs of the latter govern him.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey