Drinking Quotes - Page 13

• I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

  Trisha Goddard

  Next, Rotten, Clock

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

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Drunk, Ignorant, Suffering

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.26, Editorial MAXTOR

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

  Walter Map

  Death, Alcohol, Inns

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• I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

  Rebecca Miller

  Beach, Art, Beer

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• 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.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Depressing, Thinking, Down And

  "I'm Gazza - and I am an alcoholic", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

  Franco Nero

  Crazy, Wine, Blood

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• So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.

  Maurice Gibb

  Night, Groups, Clubs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

  Jack Osbourne

  Europe, Trying, Pills

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• How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

  Eugene Field

  Fall, Boys, Ice

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mountain, Youth, Fountain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.110

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• Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
  [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Sober, Prudence

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• While briskly to each patriot lip
  Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
  Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
  The quintessence of public spirit!

  John Trumbull

  Flip, Lips, Spirit

  John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56

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• Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over,
  Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

  John William Fletcher

  Running, Tonight, Doe

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• With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Alcohol, Answers, Information

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• Write drunk; edit sober.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

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• I always wake up at the crack of ice.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Ice, Alcohol, Cracks

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• Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

  Ben Jonson

  Thinking, Anarchy, Drink

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.218

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• I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

  W. C. Fields

  Food, Night, Feet

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• I never drank anything stronger than beer before I was twelve.

  W. C. Fields

  Beer, Stronger, Twelve

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• I am awake, I might as well be drinking

  Dan Thompson

  Beer, Might, Awake

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• I am not so think as you drunk I am.

  J. C. Squire

  Thinking, Drunk

  Poems (1926) "In continuation of Pope on Newton." Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 378:7

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• I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking

  Artie Lange

  Lying, Fellas

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• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Drunk, Sober, Conversation

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• Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

  W. C. Fields

  Christmas, Funny Life, House

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• I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

  Brendan Behan

  Food, Beer, Dry

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