Top 100 Quotes About Drinking
#1. It's not always about writing more words or drinking more coffee. Sometimes getting to the end of a novel simply takes remembering that the world is more complicated than we know, and then sticking some of those complications into the story.
Scott Westerfeld
#2. I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley
#3. She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.
Philip Kerr
#4. I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
Joe E. Lewis
#5. Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing.
Tony Robbins
#6. I mumble hocus-pocus and the next thing you know, I'm a cat. (Ravyn)
I suppose it's a step up. The last guy I had in my house could only turn into a beer-drinking pig. (Susan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. Meanwhile we'll drink your health - queen Alice's health!' she screamed at the top of her voice, and all the guests began drinking it directly ...
Lewis Carroll
#8. Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
Marcus Samuelsson
#9. MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Charles Bukowski
#10. Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober.
Ed Byrne
#11. Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would be afraid. He didn't know where he was,
Larry McMurtry
#12. I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.
Tommy Chong
#13. If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. 'Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,' I'd reply, 'so I can go on drinking and smoking!'
Luis Bunuel
#14. If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.
Tia Mowry
#16. I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.
Art Buchwald
#17. And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.
Ricky Williams
#18. I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
Glenn Hughes
#19. I went to a restaurant, and I saw a guy wearing a leather jacket, eating a hamburger, drinking a glass of milk. I said, "Dude, you are a cow. The metamorphosis is complete. Don't fall asleep or I will tip you over!"
Mitch Hedberg
#20. Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.
Charles Duhigg
#21. Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson
#22. The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.
Euripides
#23. Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.
Moby
#24. The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
Louis Tomlinson
#25. These days, "getting lucky" means drinking an entire cup of COFFEE while it's still HOT!
Tanya Masse
#26. What part of 'drinking and not talking' did I not make clear?" Dick demanded.
Molly Harper
#27. The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.
Conan O'Brien
#28. He was vaguely aware that he drank to forget. What made it rather pointless was that he couldn't remember what it was he was forgetting anymore. In the end he just drank to forget about drinking.
Terry Pratchett
#29. His apartment wasn't spared from his wrath as he slammed cabinets and chugged a glass of juice in the most aggressive way he could muster, because that's what his life had been reduced to; angrily drinking juice.
Marcus Atley
#30. Forget to smoke and drink alcohol. Start drinking the morning sunshine, pure breeze, and unconditional love. It is a much better way to get drunk.
Debasish Mridha
#31. You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.
Chelsea Cain
#32. It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me ... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.
Sam Kutesa
#33. Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics
reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.
Edith Pearlman
#34. 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.
Sonny Rollins
#35. Tantrics seek oneness with the universe
through eating meat, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, dancing,
and ritual sexual intercourse.
Marvin Harris
#36. I look at you, Masha, and it is like drinking cold water. I look at you and it is like my throat being cut.
Catherynne M Valente
#37. She understood the meaning of the "Dark Ages" now. Because with all the drinking to celebrate rescues of fair maidens and slayings of dragons, vampires, and other scary whatevers, the local folk must've spent most of their time facedown on the great hall floor.
Nina Bangs
#38. Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.
CrimethInc.
#39. It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
Gisele Bundchen
#40. What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. - from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke
Kate Bernheimer
#41. Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don't have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost everyday.
Banksy
#42. Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Jose Bergamin
#43. Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
R.H. Blyth
#44. A quote about drinking is a joy forever
John Keats
#45. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.
Ice Cube
#46. How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?
Sebastian Barry
#47. Billy Ederle's leaning in the doorway, drinking a Nozzy.
Stephen King
#48. I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.
Angelina Jolie
#49. The Astronomer's Drinking Song
Astronomers! What can avail
Those who calumniate us;
Experiment can never fail
With such an apparatus ...
Augustus De Morgan
#50. Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema ... The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.
Lee Kuan Yew
#51. I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
John Bonham
#52. The only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner
Josh Stern
#53. Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.
Hugh Laurie
#54. The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.
Will Cuppy
#55. Brunch, a meal invented by rich white chicks to rationalize day drinking and bingeing on French toast.
Caroline Kepnes
#56. Once again it occurred to me that so many of the things I could do in New York involved eating and drinking. Had we been placed here on earth to do nothing more than eat and drink?
Joshua Ferris
#57. They would sooner be dicing, drinking, and flicking, I don't doubt, but Lord Randyll believes in putting idle men to work.
George R R Martin
#58. I foresee many romantic picnics in our future. You drinking a virgin pina colada. Me drinking the blood of a virgin. (Simon)
Cassandra Clare
#59. May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright place drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit.
Banana Yoshimoto
#60. Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.
Mike Mignola
#61. 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?
Ilona Andrews
#62. Everyone has addictions and my problem is that I have 5,000 of them. If it's not drinking, it's gambling; if it's not gambling, it's eating anything from burgers, doughnuts to M&Ms. The only addiction I don't suffer from is chasing women.
John Daly
#63. Back home Chinars sniff autumn breeze,
and green leaves blush to crimson frangibility;
Yet it is me here drinking coffee, thinking airplanes;
Ashfaq Saraf
#64. We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of identity.
Stuart Wilde
#65. Young people who begin drinking before age fifteen are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at twenty-one.
Joe Bruzzese
#66. 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.
Jo Brand
#67. But her soft lips were upon his, drinking his living breath, and he was now gasping in divine madness, pressing his mouth over hers like a drowning man, breathing through her. . . . "That
Vera Nazarian
#69. 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.
Paul Gascoigne
#70. Isolde took a swig. "It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Your government just gave you two months to get knocked up." She held up the bottle, her face dull and red. "Cheers."
"You better get your fill of the booze now, then," said Xochi. "You'll be drinking for two pretty soon.
Dan Wells
#71. 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!
Arthur Hugh Clough
#72. No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
James Boswell
#73. Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
Charles Bukowski
#74. Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
Charles Bukowski
#75. All those poeple living in their paper houses, burning they paper future to stay warm. All the paper kids, drinking paper beer some bum bought for them at the paper convienience store ... All this things paper-thin and paper-frail.
John Green
#76. Life really comes down to two problems. You are either drinking too much or you are not drinking enough.
David Alejandro Fearnhead
#78. I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
Norman Douglas
#79. During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city's drinking water.
Erik Larson
#80. Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day.
Steven Pressfield
#81. Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.
Benjamin Franklin
#82. I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth
#83. Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life - free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs - than to be artificially [stimulated].
Billy Graham
#84. Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger and satisfaction, weariness and sleep, eating and drinking and breathing and life. With such company who could ever be alone?
Orson Scott Card
#85. If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
Katherine Heigl
#86. Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.
Nhat Hanh
#87. Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.
Ronee Blakley
#88. 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.
Soren Kierkegaard
#89. Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
Steven Spielberg
#90. It is not against the law to drink in public places, and you will see people drinking in parks or by the lake. The Swiss have a more relaxed attitude to alcohol consumption. From the age of 16, young people can be served beer or wine in a bar.
Clare O'Dea
#91. That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Ed O'Neill
#92. I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.
Ernest Hemingway,
#93. It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.
Robert Kiyosaki
#94. I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Samuel L. Jackson
#95. Where are you getting your material - Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking
Laura Lippman
#96. Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price oil. And number three, Lindsay Lohan has quit drinking vodka.
David Letterman
#97. When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.
Chuck Klosterman
#98. I'm not saying drinking is all that great but you know it's got benefits; you can't smoke somebody pretty.
Doug Stanhope
#99. An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
George Washington
#100. Let ... it ... go," he whispers, his voice a fierce, harsh sound in my hair. "No. No!" The last word is screamed. "You have to. You can't bleed it out. You can't keep pretending, drinking it down.
Jasinda Wilder
