Drinking Quotes

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Thirst comes with drinking when the wine is good.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians. [Fr., Il y a plus de vieux ivrongnes qu'il y a de vieux medecins.]

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

Drinking can bring out a dude that has some issues.

I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes help pay for it all.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!

I'm just saying, tonight, if you're going through a breakup and you're drinking, don't call. Just don't do it. Don't call. Because here's the thing: booze has information in it!

I knew that drinking and doing stand-up was going to make me less of an effective comedian. And I just had a lot invested in wanting to be a really good comedian and so I stopped for that reason.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

The movies that I do are in love with cinema, and I try to show that I am in love with cinema. I want them to be, in other ways, drinking from other sources.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?

Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying men.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

The good doctor put a spoon of tea into my honey." "You're drinking tea a honey badger made," Jim said. "What did you expect?

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This is a nihilist policy which hurts people.

The only thing worse for smoking than drinking is quitting drinking. Because then it's the only thing you can do.

Do you even know what hammerd means?" I asked. "Something to do with drinking your American beer out of a hole in the side of a can?" Dave reached over and slapped him on the shin. "Close enough.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

I don't do anything or have any magical secret or something, other than drinking baby's blood, of course.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

The Champagne they have stored is getting more valuable every year.