Quotes on Drinking

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.

Eating, drinking, dying - three primary manifestations of the universal and impersonal life. Animals live that impersonal and universal life without knowing its nature. Ordinary people know its nature but don't live it and, if they think seriously about it, refuse to accept it. An enlightened person knows it, lives it, and accepts it completely. He eats, he drinks, and in due course he dies - but he eats with a difference, drinks with a difference, dies with a difference.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (I know, I know: he was quoting the Psalms, and who quotes a poem when being tortured? The words aren’t the point. The point is he felt human destitution to its absolute degree; the point is that God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.)

Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.

Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.