Drinking Quotes · Page 54

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

— Tom Hodgkinson

[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.

— Nina Nastasia

“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.”

— Amit Kalantri

Don't ever forget what someone says to you while they're drunk, because drunk words are sober thoughts.

— Anonymous

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to…

— Winston Churchill

It's been about a week without alcohol of any kind. I'm enjoying my new, clean-living lifestyle.

— Anthony Bourdain

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

— Carl Andre

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

— Homer Simpson

I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the…

— Pete Coors

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives…

— Doug Stanhope

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have…

— Augusten Burroughs

Though I handled all my time, turned the world on it's side but, I guess your drinking really helps you out with…

— Anonymous

The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically…

— Stephen King

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug…

— Russell Brand

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from…

— Alexander Weinstein

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994…

— Natasha Trethewey

You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general…

— John Updike

It's hard for me to play seated theaters because people tend to sit down and get a little bit complacent, so it's…

— Jack White

“Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would…

— Christopher Hitchens

What are a genuine pain in the ass are all the misconceptions and outright lies. I read somewhere that in 2004 I…

— Jim Goad

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

— Robert Moss

The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on…

— Bassui Tokusho

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what…

— Buddy Guy

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

— Artie Lange

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

— Ben Jonson

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out…

— John Lennon

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

— Jack Kerouac

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

— Chelsea Handler

“That was the last time she was allowed back at the Bennigan's. From then on, she started drinking at the T.G.I. Friday's.”

— Joshua Ferris

“I always enjoy the day after a hangover. Each time it happens, it’s my own little victory over the demon drink.”

— Dougie Brimson

“I don't drink to make others look better, I just drink to make myself feel prettier.”

— Brooke Bida

Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his…

— Doug Stanhope

There are silver ships There are gold ships, But there are no ships Like friendships.

— W Mitchell

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

— M. F. K. Fisher

Probably, if I'm drinking a cocktail, it's something like a margarita - not frozen, on the rocks.

— Angus Cloud

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

— Graham Coxon