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Quotes About Drinking

There is skill in all things, even in making porridge. Dry bread at home is better than curried prawns abroad. Eating and drinking should not keep men from thinking. Better a small fish than an empty dish. Let not your tongue cut your throat. I
~ Ruskin Bond
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
~ Margaret Atwood
Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'
~ David Letterman
I've been watching what I eat. When I was putting on all the weight, I was drinking Guinness and not eating. I didn't have room to because I was drinking all the time.
~ Robbie Williams
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.
~ Richard Harris
In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.
~ Bob Dylan
It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
~ John Galsworthy
This was that lucid and dangerous state with drinking, when everything began to shimmer; when there was meaning in the grain of the marble; when one could make the most offensive speeches.
~ Anne Rice
Have you been drinking this morning? How did you miss me? I swear I've fought old women with better reflexes. (Takeshi) The fact you fight old women tells me just how rusty you've become. What? Your ego needed the boost and they were the only ones you could find you could beat? (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.
~ Richelle Mead
It's a good idea to prioritize your life and not making drinking the top priority. I think there are aspects of it that definitely illuminate bad decisions and how they'll negatively affect you.
~ Madeline Zima
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
~ John Gay
In a black room with orange lights and pounding Spanish music we stood in a big circle dancing. It reminded me of preschool, when you also had to stand in a circle and clap your hands. I began to intuit dimly why people drank when they went dancing, and it occurred to me that maybe the reason preschool had felt the way it had was that one had had to go through the whole thing sober.
~ Elif Batuman
every single decision you make - who your friends are, who you date, whether you decide to smoke or drink - has a consequence.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
She tilted her head back reflexively, drinking deep of the night air tainted by the unwholesome sweetness of the Well, looking upward as if the stars were there to help her bear the pain.
~ Elizabeth Bear
When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore he really was.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
My drinking team has a curling problem.
~ As seen on a shirt
Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.
~ Ava Gardner
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
~ Babe Ruth
Living in London, drinking has just been a big part of growing up here. It's always been readily available.
~ Spencer Matthews
We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
~ Gary Oldman
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
~ Jim Morrison
All of this means that our Christian position on drinking must be rooted not merely in the negative effects of drinking on the physio-social aspects of life, but primarily in the positive principles and admonitions regarding drinking given to us by God in His Word. The definition of our Christian position on drinking must begin by listening first to what God has to say about it in His Word, and then to what scientific research tells us regarding the effects of alcohol.
~ Samuele Bacchiocchi
regrets are a waste of good drinking time,
~ Sandy Mitchell