Drinking Quotes

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But I just became a bad, annoying drunk child, so when I stopped, I'd done a lot of things I wasn't proud of.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!