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Quotes About Hangovers

I used to be jack the lad, I was out a lot, I was mainly waking up with hangovers at tournaments rather than preparing.
~ Jimmy White
I don't get hangovers - it's some kind of superhuman ability.
~ Josh Widdicombe
Medicinally, cabbage eating was said to prevent drunkenness or at least to alleviate hangovers, both recurrent Roman problems; it was also the vegetable of choice for curing colic, paralysis, and the plague.
~ Rebecca Rupp
Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.
~ Jeff Sampson
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
~ Kate O'Brien
Down here in the pain, I don't have to know. I just note the question and move on. Answers are rare and come in their own time but hangovers are reliable and never in short supply.
~ Richard Kadrey
As Iggy later recalled, in a typical week they'd spend two days drunk, two days nursing their hangovers, and three days straight—"which is a pretty good balance for musicians.
~ Rob Sheffield
Love, you poison my typewriter. How can I write with every key screaming? Since you've left, I've had hangovers they could name battleships after.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.
~ Liz Jensen
Eastern spirits are made from rice and their hangovers are apologetic while stabbing you in the kidneys," Eagles replied affably. "What you want, western man, are southern spirits. These will do you the courtesy of smashing you in the face as you drink them, rather than tricking you into thinking them mild and harmless.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
~ Margaret Cho
Hangovers had a way of teaching people that drinking alcohol was not a good idea.
~ John Flanagan
Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
~ Henry Miller
I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.
~ Trisha Goddard
I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
~ Jack Kerouac
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.
~ Charles Bukowski
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.
~ Charles Bukowski
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me feel uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.
~ Charles Bukowski
All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.
~ Jack Kerouac
I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.
~ John Steinbeck
I realized that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered
~ Matt Haig
Alcohol in the evening is very enjoyable. Hangovers in the morning are very unpleasant. At some point you have to choose: evenings or mornings.
~ Matt Haig