--- title: "5 Drinking Life Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 5 Drinking Life quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Drinking Life sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/115/alcoholics-anonymous-4926_life_new-year-s-resolutions-i-recycled-for-a_10211.jpg" --- > [“New Year’s resolutions I recycled for a dozen years while my drinking and my life kept getting worse. Alcohol had enslaved me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcoholics-anonymous/new-year-s-resolutions-i-recycled-for-a-dozen-years-while-my-drinking/) [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcoholics-anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/115/alcoholics-anonymous-4926_life_new-year-s-resolutions-i-recycled-for-a_10211.jpg) > [The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-kids-accepted-my-drinking-as-a-part-of-life-not-a-particularly/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d77/stephen-king-13_accepted_the-kids-accepted-my-drinking-as-a-part_745744.jpg) > [Just take it a day at a time. If you think, "I'm never drinking again in my life," you're setting yourself up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-montgomery/just-take-it-a-day-at-a-time-if-you-think-i-m-never-drinking-again-in/) [Ryan Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a38/ryan-montgomery-15724_consistency_just-take-it-a-day-at-a-time-if-you-thin_885254.jpg) > [“I’d made late-night calls to distant places. I could tell from the numbers whom I’d called, but what had I said? Some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alcoholics-anonymous/i-d-made-late-night-calls-to-distant-places-i-could-tell-from-the/) [Alcoholics Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alcoholics-anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/alcoholics-anonymous-4926_quote_i-d-made-late-night-calls-to-distant-pla_1132371.jpg) > [There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shane-macgowan/there-is-drinking-in-lots-of-the-songs-because-there-is-drinking-in/) [Shane MacGowan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shane-macgowan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f1/shane-macgowan-22194_drinking_there-is-drinking-in-lots-of-the-songs-b_2125536.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drinking-life/#itemlist", "name": "Drinking Life Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“New Year’s resolutions I recycled for a dozen years while my drinking and my life kept getting worse. Alcohol had enslaved me. 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