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Quotes About Drinking

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts wir trinken dich mittags und morgens wir trinken dich abends wir trinken und trinken ein Mann wohnt im Haus dein goldenes Haar Margarete dein aschenes Haar Sulamith er spielt mit den Schlangen Er ruft spielt süßer den Tod der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland er ruft streicht dunkler die Geigen dann steigt ihr als Rauch in die Luft dann habt ihr ein Grab in den Wolken da liegt man nicht eng
~ Paul Celan
When we feel well after carrying out a certain task. Consequently, everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success. I have seen so many people suffocated by success, making mistakes which ended up destroying years of work, yielding to heavy drinking, becoming aggressive, tough, bitter. These people are distant from themselves, and distant from others.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's an extraordinary thing—every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don't you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?
~ Unknown
In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.
~ Damien Hirst
She laughed. All right, all right. Still want to leave for San Francisco tomorrow? Not unless you're in a hurry. Let's stick around awhile. This excitement has put us behind in our drinking.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Yo desconfío de un hombre que dice basta cuando le están sirviendo de beber. Pues si ha de tener cuidado de no beber demasiado, esto indica que no es de fiar cuando lo hace
~ Dashiell Hammett
She's been sulking for a week. If I didn't drink I'd go crazy." "What's she sulking about?" "About my drinking.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.
~ Dave Barry
Do you think it's a coincidence that college is when many Americans do their most serious fucking and falling-down drinking and generally ecstatic DIonysian-type reveling? It's not.
~ David Foster Wallace
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Does not our lives consist of the four elements? Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking.
~ William Shakespeare
he that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day.
~ William Shakespeare
With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, not with love. Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel house for the sign of blind Cupid.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.
~ Woody Allen
That night I'd already had quite a bit to drink. I wandered from bar to bar, until, excessively happy, I was afraid I'd outdo myself: I'd grown too comfortable in my own skin. I was looking for a way to pour some of myself out, before I completely overflowed
~ Clarice Lispector
The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.
~ Clay Aiken
Cúpoles la ración de dos copas por estómago: a la segunda quedó abierto el apetito del copeo, y las botellas fueron llegando una tras otra a pedimento de don Sebastián.
~ Unknown
Cardan removes his glamour, glad to be free of it, drinking in the fragrance of moss and loam. The moonlight shines down, reflecting off leaf and stone.
~ Holly Black
While I'm drinking, the phone rings. If you are listening for it, the phone is always ringing at Iris. People call day and night for reservations. Sometimes they're looking for a table for that night. Sometimes it's for a year form now. People are crazy in their planning. How do they know where they will be living next year or if they will even be alive? I'm too superstitious to make plans like that.
~ Lily King
One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.
~ Unknown
You're not suited for this Merripen. You can't hold your liquor worth a damn. And unlike people such as me, who become quite amicable when they drink, you turn into a vile-tempered troll." Leo paused considering how best to provoke him. "Liquor brings out one's true inner nature, they say.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it's the best way to get a pint off anyone.
~ Saoirse Ronan
I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.
~ Don Rickles
Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
~ Byron Dorgan