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Quotes About Drinking

I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes.
~ George Best
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
~ Oscar Levant
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
~ Oscar Wilde
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks
~ Unknown
More than a few historians have suggested that heavy drinking in colonial times (and well into the nineteenth century) occurred, at least in part, because water supplies were unreliable and could, in some cases, cause disease. Food supplies—often not properly refrigerated in an era when an icehouse was considered "high tech"—were similarly suspect.
~ Unknown
Ousted from the Lincoln ticket, Hamlin—temperate when it came to his own drinking—perhaps was only too happy to comply. And so Johnson—on one of the most important days of his political career—opted for the dubious "hair of the dog" strategy. But sometimes the dog bites back.
~ Unknown
When playing either quarter pitch or spinners, you can go through a case of beer in twenty minutes. It's fun and it's deadly.
~ Mary Brave Bird
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Smoking is every bit the personal assistant that drinking is. It makes life easier. Its presence is a literal and figurative buffer between you and the face you're talking to, easily morphing into another person when you're lonely.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
My mother insulted me, I insulted her, Jeanne, the stepgrandmother, insulted everything in a skirt, and my grandfather just kept right on drinking. We picked at our food, competing for who could eat the least. When
~ Marya Hornbacher
One day, Kaname's lips will lightly touch this neck of yours, and slowly, Kaname's teeth will sink in... If you hear the sound of Kaname drinking your own blood, Yuki-chan, then, for sure, you'll feel ecstasy.
~ Unknown
If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
~ Matt Haig
The next day I had a hangover. I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
~ Matt Haig
She'd met Dan while living with Izzy in Tooting. Big smile, short beard. Visually, a TV vet. Fun, curious. He drank quite a bit, but always seemed immune to hangovers.
~ Matt Haig
Love came bearing love A chalice of light We bathed in love and drank it Then our flesh Seemed like the leaves Enameled bright forever.
~ May Swenson
He drank, as a man is wont to do when confronted with his innermost emotions, particularly ones pertaining to the heart.
~ Unknown
I never think of nothing. The closest I come to a blank mind is when I am counting, fucking, or drinking. The rest of the time, my thoughts are like a hamster on a wheel, running endlessly but getting nowhere.
~ Megan Hart
She hadn't planned on having another beer, but then...when did she ever plan to drink another one? They usually just followed one after the other like stepping stones set into a stream, and she hopped along them one at a time until she lost her balance and fell into the drink.
~ Megan Hart
While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?
~ Melody Carlson
Mormons have to have absurdly high standards. Other people try not to drink to excess. Mormons refuse to drink at all. Other people cut back on their coffee at Lent. Mormons drink neither coffee nor tea, ever, and I know plenty of Mormons who think it is wrong to drink hot chocolate, or herbal tea, or decaffeinated coffee. Or anything that could be mistaken for tea at a casual glance. Or anything coffee-flavored. Or rum-flavored. Or even vanilla extract.
~ Unknown
When he met Kurt and Chris, he was a saute cook at a seafood restaurant on Bainbridge Island. By night, he partied with his friends, smoking pot, drinking, and doing the potent local acid, which many swear has fried the brains of an entire generation of Bainbridge Islanders.
~ Michael Azerrad
Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.
~ Mike Mignola
For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
People are awful. Drink some beer.
~ Min Jin Lee