Drinking Quotes

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

The last time I drank, I drove into a ditch, which doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but I stopped at the ditch, looked left and right, then drove into the ditch.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people, most - than most proposals for involuntarily fertility control.

We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet.

Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

I was, like, just eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

I've never been a drinker, I've never gotten into drugs ... You know, I think I have such a close family ... I think you know my sisters do enough drinking to kind of fill up the whole family.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

There's a lot of stuff in the club that's like, it's cool there because you're drinking and all you wanna do is do ignorant sh*t.

I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient.

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

I do think I am a country boy at heart. I love the buzz of towns and going out with friends and sitting with them drinking and whatever - it's fun - but, at the same time, I like space and freedom.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

I have never met anyone who is addicted to alcohol who isn't drinking for a lot of dead spirits!

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning.

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

I work until beer o'clock.

I used to work at a health food store. I got fired for drinking straight Bosco on the job.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.