alcoholic

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches of aspens and pines. A hard wind blows snow up out of a cavern and over my face. I know this place, I know its seasons - I have hiked these mountains in the summer and walked these winding pathways in the explosion of colour that is a northern fall. And now, the temperature drops well below zero and the deadly cold lake rages below, I feel the stirrings of faith that here, in this place, in my heart, spring will come again.But first the winter must be waited out. And that waiting has worth.

When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that__xcuses. We don__ consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.

AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore.

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.