Drinking Quotations | Page 7

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Well I have a drug history and a public drinking problem and I am not the healthiest guy. So they just ran that I died of a drug overdose.

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life.

There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to the destruction of all. For pleasures are very voracious, too apt to worry one another, and each, like Aaron's serpent, is prone to swallow up the rest. Thus drinking will soon destroy the power, gaming the means, and sensuality the taste, for other pleasures less seductive, but far more salubrious, and permanent as they are pure.