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Quotes About Drinking

She'd been drinking jug wine steadily for four hours.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,And drinks, and gapes for drink again.The plants suck in the earth, and areWith constant drinking fresh and fair.
~ Abraham Cowley
Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems
~ Abraham Lincoln
I once saw ten minutes of The Big Breakfast and it was quite enough to convince me that television in the morning was like drinking in the morning: only real addicts could possibly do it without throwing up.
~ Adrian Gill
I took my hand off the pause button. I had my life on pause. You get stuck, especially when you're drinking and isolating. I started homing in on what I wanted to do as a person. Just try to grow up.
~ Jeff Bauman
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.
~ Megan Mullally
It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, 'Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'
~ Lee Mack
If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.
~ Ellen G. White
There's health risks in anything, even if you're just drinking soda or drinking lemonade! If you drink too much lemonade you drink too much sugar and you could get diabetes.
~ Paul Wall
I used to like to go out when I was younger; I would go out and have a few beers then go training on Sunday which probably wasn't the best thing to do.
~ Gerwyn Price
Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.
~ Ray Bradbury
Americans have resorted to drinking bottled, filtered, and distilled water in unprecedented amounts today. But you should know this: except for distilled water, you have no way of knowing the quality of the water you are paying so dearly for since it is an entirely unregulated market.
~ Ray D. Strand
I will stress this point again: The cause of your drinking is you, due to your thoughts and beliefs about life, people, and the world in general.
~ Joseph Murphy
They said, Tell us. She said, Only what I know. They said, Tell us, so that justice can be executed. She said, I was drinking. I was to blame. I don't remember. How can I give testimony against him!
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is for one to eat and drink, and to find enjoyment in all the labor in which he labors under the sun all the days which God gives him—for this is his [allotted] part. Ecclesiastes 5:18
~ Joyce Meyer
Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
~ Warren Ellis
This, to a busy mind like his, was a truly deplorable situation; and had he not been a man of inflexible morals and regular habits, there would have been great danger of his taking to politics or drinking—both which pernicious vices we daily see men driven to by mere spleen and idleness.
~ Washington Irving
One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.
~ Danish Proverb
A man should drink in moderation be sensible or silent.                         Hávamál
~ James L. Nelson
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
~ Dorothy Parker
I wish I could drink like a lady I can take one or two at the most Three and I'm under the table Four and I'm under the host.
~ Dorothy Parker
Amo i Martini, ma due al massimo. Tre, e sono sotto al tavolo. Quattro, e sono sotto il cameriere.
~ Dorothy Parker
Ford stared at Arthur, and Arthur was astonished to find his will beginning to weaken. He didn't realize that this was because of an old drinking game that Ford learned to play in the hyper-space ports that served the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta.
~ Douglas Adams