A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
H. L. Mencken

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
Robert Quine

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
Alphonse Allais

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
Xenophon

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
Frank McCourt

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
Jimmy Breslin

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
M. F. K. Fisher

I drank beer, and I had a career year.
David Wells

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.
Thomas Keller

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
Mitch Hedberg

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
Pat Travers

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
George Farquhar

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl Lagerfeld

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.
Marty Robbins

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Aleister Crowley

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
Mark E. Smith

I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk.
Will M. Cook

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
John Hurt