Quotes on Drinking

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Author: Aeschylus

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Author: Alcaeus

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

Author: Rick Allen

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

Author: Desi Arnaz

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

Author: George Best

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.

Author: John Bonham

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Author: Jimmy Breslin

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Author: Winston Churchill

Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

Author: Tommy Cooper

The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

Author: Pete Coors

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

Author: Macaulay Culkin

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

Author: Diogenes

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.

Author: Nora Dunn

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

Author: W. Fields

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Author: Carrie Fisher

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Author: Clement Freud

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

Author: Glenn Frey

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

Author: Kinky Friedman

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

Author: Kinky Friedman

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.

Author: Paul Gascoigne

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Author: Terry Goodkind

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

Author: Marilu Henner

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

Author: Dan Hicks

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

Author: Mark Hoppus

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

Author: Freddie Hubbard

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Author: Billy Joel

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Author: Samuel Johnson

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

Author: Laura Kightlinger

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

Author: Calvin Klein

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

Author: Edward Koch

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

Author: Artie Lange

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Author: Jeanette MacDonald

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

Author: Walter Map

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

Author: Lee Marvin

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Author: Kelly McGillis

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

Author: Jack Osbourne

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.

Author: William Petersen

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Author: Thomas Quincey

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Author: Lou Reed

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

Author: Bill Rodgers

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

Author: Jean Savarin

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Author: Evan Sayet

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Author: John Selden

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

Author: Casey Stengel

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Author: Tom Waits

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Author: Henny Youngman