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Quotes About Drinking

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
he drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.
~ William Peter Blatty
Fill up the goblet, and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum....
~ William Rounseville Alger
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.
~ William Shakespeare
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
~ William Temple
Our drinking of God as the living water is for the church as His increase; our drinking is for the producing of His enlargement, His fullness, for His expression.
~ Witness Lee
To think of how many times I have carted a lingering drunk out of my house in a wheelbarrow and leaned him up against a tree along the road.
~ Wolfgang Hildesheimer
maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager...
~ David Nicholls
Citing the University of Pittsburgh study, the New York Times noted, "The average adolescent is exposed to approximately 84 references to illicit substance use per day and 591 references per week, or 30,732 references per year. . . . Studies have long shown that media messages have a pronounced impact on childhood risk behaviors." A study of sixteen thousand teenagers in six European countries found that the more drinking kids saw in movies, the more likely they were to binge drink.
~ David Sheff
that on any given night, an average of five hundred teenagers are taken to hospital emergency rooms for alcohol poisoning or other effects of binge drinking.
~ David Sheff
I started running to escape the memories that drinking couldn't cover up
~ Dean Karnazes
Ethanol is for drinking, not driving
~ Jay Keasling
Quand je bois, cela rend les gens bavards.
~ Jean-Marie Laclavetine
you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a mater of discipline, really.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Having read this far, Angela, you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a matter of discipline, really.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a matter of discipline, really.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
water was running down from the glaciers high above. A moment later all six were on their knees, drinking.
~ Alfred Lansing
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
~ Artie Lange
I wasn't drinking to get drunk. It's social drinking, so what's the point? It's empty calories, you're poisoning yourself.
~ Spencer Matthews
I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.
~ Graham Coxon
No one says anything for a minute. Then Fuck Hollywood says, "I know it's early, but can we start drinking?
~ Richard Kadrey
You're saying you're a better person than me?" Kasabian thinks about it. "Yeah. That's exactly what I'm saying." "Then let's drink to that.
~ Richard Kadrey
I felt as though nothing had changed. I felt as though the only thing I had done was quit drinking. Only the land offered me any kind of solace.
~ Richard Wagamese
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