Quotes about drinking

Maggie Stiefvater - The Raven Boys

Ronan did not smoke he preferred his habits with hangovers.

R.J. Childerhose - Wild Blue

The Americans called theirs the Officers Club but the Canadians called ours the Officers Mess. The American term was the more honest ours the more accurate. Drunken officers at play are messy.

Kenneth Eade - An Involuntary Spy

Seth discovered that night that he had two extra stomachs one for vodka and one for overeating.

Rumer Godden - The Greengage Summer

I know now it is children who accept life grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

Drew Carey -

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

Charlotte Eriksson -

So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete. I am not this year and I am not your fault.I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day,but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries o

Raymond E. Feist - Talon of the Silver Hawk

why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?''Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.

Robert A. Heinlein - Time Enough for Love

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Benjamin Franklin -

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Chelsea Handler - My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

David Sedaris - Naked

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

Dorothy Parker - The Collected Dorothy Parker

I like to have a martini,Two at the very most.After three I'm under the table,after four I'm under my host.

Terry Pratchett -

Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

W.C. Fields -

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

Jeff Foxworthy -

The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.

Steve Martin -

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

W.C. Fields -

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

Matt Groening -

To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems

Chelsea Handler -

Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like to Drink and Stay Home.

Alex Levine -

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

For the first twenty years of my life, I rocked myself to sleep. It was a harmless enough hobby, but eventually, I had to give it up. Throughout the next twenty-two years I lay still and discovered that after a few minutes I could drop off with no problem. Follow seven beers with a couple of scotches and a thimble of good marijuana, and it’s funny how sleep just sort of comes on its own. Often I never even made it to the bed. I’d squat down to pet the cat and wake up on the floor eight hours lat

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

Warren Ellis -

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

Darynda Jones - First Grave on the Right

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

Dorothy Parker -

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Eugene Mirman - The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.

James Crumley -

Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of him

W.C. Fields -

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

Charlotte Eriksson -

Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud,but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hoursjust wanting to make it through the day.There's

Cathy Burnham Martin - The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

No one else “makes” us do anything. They can’t make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.

B.J. Neblett -

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?

Karen Quan - liQUID PROse QUOtes

It's super cloudy right now but I think I can see the northern lights from my room. Another observation: Every light is a strobe light, if you just blink fast enough, and drink enough vodka.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Sherman Alexie - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

Jasinda Wilder - Falling into You

It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and

Wayne Gerard Trotman - Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found amidst a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.

Joe Buckler - Later That Night

Efficient self-destruction is what it is. Clean and neat. Almost surgical in its precision.

John Updike - The Poorhouse Fair

Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

Denice Envall -

My lips have touched more bottles than lovers and I'm half a shot away from psychotic.

Adam Berlin - The Number of Missing

She takes another sip of her drink. She looks around the bar. I look at the fine muscles in her neck, at the two points of her clavicle. Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face. Maybe she should do what I do. She could stand next to me and the students could draw our lines. I order another bourbon, count the count.

Jasinda Wilder - Falling into You

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.

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.

Abby Fabiaschi - I Liked My Life

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.

Paula Stokes - Girl Against the Universe

Time doesn’t heal anything. It’s like drinking. The best it can do is help you forget, if you’re lucky.

Yuhta Nishio - Vol. 1

You're a bad man who made her pound a shot of Jäger.

Haruki Murakami -

He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

Ernest Hemingway -

The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance.

Quentin R. Bufogle -

99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.

Craig Ferguson - American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

CrimethInc. - Anarchy and Alcohol

Think of the power we could have if all the energy and effort in the world – or maybe even just your energy and effort? – that goes into drinking were put into resisting, building, creating. Try adding up all the money anarchists in your community have spent on corporate libations, and picture how much musical equipment or bail money or food it could have paid for – instead of funding their war against all of us.

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Next to music, beer was best.

Charles Frazier - Nightwoods

Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most potent available argument against Lily, Bud stuck his hands into his coat pockets and pulled out the many bundles of hundreds and threw them on the bedspread. If you were honest and stupid, you worked a couple of lifetimes for that kind of money, doled out by the hour in pocket-change amounts by asswipe bosses.

Adelheid Manefeldt - Consequence

Sam groaned. A warmth on her face alerted her to the new morning. She opened one eye and peered at the fuzzy daylight streaming in through the window. Her head throbbed like a bitch. Her mouth felt like a carpet. She pushed herself off the couch and stood up shakily, kicking bottles as she stumbled to her small kitchen. Every movement was painful and slow. She was a sloth tight-roping through time. She held onto the basin for a moment to steady herself. She grabbed a plastic cup and opened the t

Anthony Liccione -

I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.

Charles Bukowski -

Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain.” “You drunk?” “Not yet.

Edgar Allan Poe -

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones

In the fall he picked up his phone one afternoon to hear Grandma Lynn.'Jack,' my grandmother announced, 'I am thinking of coming to stay.' My father was silent, but the line was riddled with his hesitation.'I would like to make myself available to you and the children. I've been knocking around in this mausoleum long enough.''Lynn, we're just beginning to start over again,' he stammered. Still, he couldn't depend on Nate's mother to watch Buckley forever. Four months after my mother left, her te

Allan Dare Pearce - Paris in April

He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had to stay sober for a few hours; it was that important.

Steven Magee -

The top easily preventable health problems that I see in western societies are: 1. Eating chemically grown food. 2. Exposure to electronically generated harmonic energy from wind and solar power systems. 3. Exposure to harmonic energy from switched mode power supplies (SMPS) that come with modern electronic products. 4. Exposure to wireless radio frequency radiation (RF). 5. Light deficiency from an indoor lifestyle and Low-E double glazed windows. 6. Sound deficiency from heavily insulated home

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading 2

When reality and your dreams collide, typically it’s just your alarm clock going off.

Dexter Palmer - Version Control

She drank the glass with breakfast and poured herself another. By the time she'd gotten Sean off to school (second grade) the edges had been taken off her thoughts and the world seemed as it should be: not too real, but real enough.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Let truth be told. The more we allow water to be controlled, bottled and sold — the more we sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gold.

Amit Kalantri -

People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams.

Caitlin Moran - Moranthology

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

John Crowley - American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire novel's worth of thought would have to be expended on each one. His attention had only to lapse for a moment, between preposition and object, colophon and chapter heading, for dead spots to appear like gangrene that would rot the whole. Silkworms didn't work as finely or as patiently as he must, and yet bo

Sunday Adelaja -

Some waste away their lives by drinking, partying or by simply having fun and living for pleasure.

Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness an

Ellis Peters - The Heretic's Apprentice

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

Stephanie Clifford - Everybody Rise

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.

Roman Payne - The Wanderess

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

Robert Reed -

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different"....

Israelmore Ayivor - Become a Better You

Kill your appetite and save for the future!

J. Budziszewski - On the Meaning of Sex

What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don't believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes place when both participants are drinking or drunk, and it's not hard to guess the reason why: After a certain amount of this, you may need to get drunk to go through with it.

Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays

The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress.

Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays

Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love.

Abhijit Naskar - Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

Remember my friend, uncontrolled alcohol, uncontrolled casual sex and mindless indoctrination are not signs of progress, they are signs of drowning into the abyss of mental and physical degradation.

Matthew Stokoe - High Life

I slept and the night rolled over into day like a dog. Another post-meridian awakening - sunshine on empty bottles, tangled clothes. I dozed while the temperature rose.

Robert Benchley -

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Michael Benanav - Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold

Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their humps are made of fat, and water is stored in their body tissues. While other mammals draw water from bloodstreams when faced with dehydration, leading to death by volume shock, camels tap the water in their tissues, keeping their blood volume stable. Though this reduces the camel’s bulk, they can lose up to a third of their body weight with no ill effects, which they can

Kamand Kojouri -

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat

You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop.If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say:"Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving waters; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corpses held by seaweed?"

Charlotte Eriksson - Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrowfor I am not a poem. I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspiredbut empty and weary from drinking too much at all timesand I am not the life of yo

Frank O'Hara - The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousnessyou think it is nice that a boxof matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Swedenfor they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

J.R.R. Tolkien -

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

Ogden Nash - Private Dining-room and Other New Verses

How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle,And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle.What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me?I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me.Your wife can’t be a banshee—Or can she?

Stefan D -

- Why'd you even think I'd read your diploma before, during, or after buying 10 copies of it in an all-you-can-drink online bar? - If I could drink what I read, I'd probably still be drunk on Joyce's Ulysses. I should've chased it with a racer.-Stefan D and Jarod Kintz

Kamand Kojouri -

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

Frank Sinatra -

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche -

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Brendan Behan -

I am a drinker with writing problems.

Brendan Behan -

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

Roald Dahl - Boy: Tales of Childhood

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. He does it to give himself faith hope and courage. A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that I am sure is why he does it.

Irwin Shaw -

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Last Night I Sang to the Monster

What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

George Gurley - George & Hilly: The Anatomy of a Relationship

I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".

Gena Showalter - Alice in Zombieland

Pops: How about you finish this sentence for me, Jason? When a girl says no she means...Justin, looking desperately at me: No?Nana: Are you sure?Justin, shifting uncomfortably: I'm sure. No means no.Nana: Well look at you. You got one right. Now here's another, even tougher sentence for you to finish. Premarital sex is...Me: Nana! I'm so sorry Justin.Nana: Unlike Pops, I'm not moving on. Justin?Pops: His name is Jason.Justin:Uh....uh....Pops: While you think about that, why don't you tell me how