Quotes About Drinking

They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend. Came out staggering. My God I'll never take another drink, said the first. My God I'll never go to another movie. How's that for commitment?

His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore drinking sherry out of a coffee cup.

I was going to drink tonight anyway but I'm happier it's because we're celebrating your birthday.

People close to me wouldn't have thought that I had a drinking problem because it wasn't evident although towards the very end of my drinking perhaps it became a little bit more of an issue.

I hate beer," she moaned. "If you drink enough of it, you won't care about the taste," he assured her. She gave the can a dubious stare, shrugged, closed her eyes, held her breath and drank heavily. "Yuck!" she said. "Keep going.

The snow is coming, she said. Soon it will be snow time. Together then as in other snow times. Drinking busthead 'round the fire. Truth is a locked room that we knock the lock off from time to time, and then board up again. Tomorrow you will hurt me, and I will inform you that you have done so, and so on and so on. To hell with it. Come, viridian friend, come and sup with me.

Germans found American (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.

So long as you drank publicly, not secretly, you weren't a drunk.

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

As Chester poured more water, she asked, "Does all drinking water come from a bottle?" For some reason this was amusing. "Oh yes," Mattie replied. "No one drinks the water around here. Our fearless regulators promise us it's safe to drink, but no one believes them. We clean ourselves, our clothes, and our dishes with it, and some folks brush their teeth with it, but not me.

Lucien was sitting on his front porch, drinking

"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

Cuz this is for dreaming, this is for leaving, this is you picking up the pieces when I'm gone. This is to drinking, this is to living, this is to packing up my sh.. and moving on. I'm moving on.

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

They didn't talk for a while. Johnson popped the top on the second beer, took a long swig, then tossed the nearly full can over his shoulder and down the hill. "Good-bye, old friend," he said. "I'll believe it a year from now," Virgil said. Johnson: "Say, this whole stop-drinking thing . . . it doesn't include margaritas, does it?" —

Cops and schoolteachers," Sloan said with satisfaction. "A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.

How much is whiskey a gallon?" "I don't know," said Hughie. "I never get more than a half pint at a time myself—at one time that is. I figure you get a quart and right away you got friends. But you get a half pint and you can drink it in the lot before— well before you got a lot of folks around.

They had been drinking. In the society of Tarbox there was no invitation more flattering than to share, like this, another couple's intimacy, to partake in their humorous déshabille, their open quarrels and implicit griefs.

Dont waste life drinking and smoking. Live life loving and caring. Most of all...Live life knowing that you are loved, Even when you feel your not...You are, By God.

Hot tubs are like relationships! They're almost too hott when you first get in, then after a while it's pure comfort... But if you try to stay in one forever, you will become dehydrated and die! But hey, somehow we all get to drinking and find ourselves waking up in one.

Feelings are waters flowing in chain from soul to soul – do you know the shape of the Universe? Neither do I, but I imagine this chain of souls drinking from souls and these from others…

remember that my father was sad much of the time and that he grasped at ways of feeling better, whether through drinking or through escape. He reached out and all too often found nothing there to comfort him.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.