Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.
— Jimmy Breslin
Wonderful Don't Drink Alcohol quotations
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.
I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya.
.. but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.
I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me.
I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.
Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.
Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.
Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.
I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.
I began to think vodka was my drink at last.
It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.
If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore.

They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them.
When they come around and say, "What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink." Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before.
With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol.
Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure.
I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting.
But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.
There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

I don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle.
I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day.
It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholic drinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater, you don't just eat when things are bad. You eat when you feel anything.