An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses.

Sex mirrored our drinking; both defined our relationship: selfish, detached, indulgent and satisfying.”A Change Is Gonna Come

When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.

It’s a tradition to drink rakia with snacks. Not like the Russians, you know, who just drink to get drunk. I like a little snack with the news.

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.

Go sip on gossip, and leave the coffee talk for me to chug. I’ll be in the kitchen, giggling like a schoolgirl if you need me.

Once the orange juice wears off, I might be drunk. I love vodka.

When I go to the bar, I never drink much. And to do that I avoid conversations, as silence reduces saliva and swallowing, which is drinking.

Drinking and eating. The whoring we will keep until we get yougood and drunk.

The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue…

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

… while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

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

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife

There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.

New Rule: The Napa Valley is Disneyland for alcoholics. Be honest, you’re not visiting wineries in four days because you’re an oenophile, you’re doing it because you’re a drunk. It’s the only place in America...

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...

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,...

My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. “My nice policeman wants to see you,” she said. “How do you feel?””Terrible. I must’ve gone to bed sober.” I...

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...

Somebody get me a bottle of booze—and a reason to quit drinking. I fell in love twice today, and I only encountered one other person.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

If your breath smells like coffee, I might try to drink our conversation. Wake me up with the words you’re speaking.

Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.

Ronan did not smoke; he preferred his habits with hangovers.

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

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.

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...

Drinking just to get drunk is like having sex just to get pregnant.

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.

one doesn’t even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn’t think ofus, that’sfine.

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.

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

You know what I can’t stand?” Stand. I’ll sell rants in small, medium, and large.

I drink coffee like steam is the ghost of dead water. Ever tried inhaling the afterlife?

I added five shots to my coffee, because that’s all the bullets my magazine can hold.

Forget plastic surgery. Enhance your beauty by getting those around you drunk.

Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman’s trapdoor.

the only drinking problem I’ve ever had, is figuring out why I’m still stuck in this salad spinner

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....

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing ‘The Spirit of Champagne’ on pointe, in Paris. I thought, ‘I don’t want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

A lady came up to me one day and said ‘Sir! You are drunk’, to which I replied ‘I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

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

Next to music, beer was best.