(1669 quotes found)
“The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.”
William Osler
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.”
Bill Maher
“Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.”
Joseph Heller
“If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you”
Dick Gregory
“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”
Jean Cocteau
“I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?”
Denis Leary
“A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.”
Stella Adler
“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”
John Lennon
“Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.”
Bill Hicks
