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Quotes About Drinking

If we were still English we'd be drinking more and driving on the wrong side of the road - pretty much what people do on the Fourth of July anyway.
~ Lorrie Moore
The Cat She was licking The opened tin For hours and hours Without realising That she was drinking Her own blood. -spyros kyriazopoulos
~ Louis de Bernieres
For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
No one gets drunk in order to raise their moral standards.
~ Ry? Murakami
Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.
~ Marilu Henner
I am not against drinking, but drink to celebrate not to remove stress! Be in integrity with the word 'cheers!!!!
~ Harrish Sairaman
Alcohol doesn't benefit anybody except the industry that peddles it. There is no demarcation line between "normal" drinking and problem drinking; it is all part of the same disease. The problem drinker is just at a more advanced stage.
~ Allen Carr
Of course the act of drinking tea was, in and of itself, quite troublesome, as it had been known to lead to all sorts of sins: idleness, gossip, political activity, subversive thinking.
~ Ami McKay
I don't trust a man who drinks,' he growled, not bothered about dressing it up. 'A man takes to drinking, then he gets weak, then his mind goes.' Cosca sadly shook his head. 'You have it back to front. A man's mind goes, then he gets weak, then he takes to drink. The bottle is the symptom, not the cause.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Wine can keep a happy man happy, on occasion. A sad one it always makes worse.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Ever think maybe you drink too much?" asked Wonderful. Clover smacked his lips. "Too much would, by definition, be too much. I find however much I drink is just the right amount.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It was incomprehensible that her entire life had been a carousel of unhappiness, drinking, failed promises, and loneliness, all turning around and around a single afternoon encounter with this man.
~ Joe Hill
It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
~ Joey Comeau
In the end it never works out. You are who you are, no matter what you pretend at the beginning. So I'm not pretending. I drink to ignore my problems. I spend more time with my computer than with my friends. I am angry and lonely, but I can wash dishes just fine. I'm being honest. Please don't be an asshole about this.
~ Joey Comeau
See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking
~ Robert Burns
Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.
~ Cassandra Clare
I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .
~ Dylan Thomas
when his drinking had cost him discharge from the Army. He had known it again after Shiloh, that uncoordinated
~ Edmund Wilson
Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
~ Anonymous
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
~ Anonymous
The problem with drinking and driving is the mourning after.
~ Anonymous
In dog beers, I've only had one.
~ Anonymous
I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.
~ Anonymous
They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.
~ Anthony Bourdain