Drinking Problem Quotes:

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Drinking, Fall, Drinking Problem

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

- Humphrey Bogart

topic: Book, Drinking, Beer, Irish Beer, Brewing

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Drinking, Beer, Order, Drinking Beer, Drinking Problem

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

- Matt Groening

topic: Food, Humor, Alcohol, Drinking Problem, Funny Alcohol

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Drinking, Glasses, Alcohol, Ale, Brewing

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Drinking, Beer, Who Cares, Ale, Drinking Alcohol

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

- Tom Waits

topic: Drinking, Alcohol, Problem, Don't Drink Alcohol, Drinking Cheers

You know you have a drinking problem when the bartender knows your name -- and you've never been to that bar before.

- Zach Galifianakis

topic: Funny, Drinking, Names, Drinking Problem, Bartender

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Drinking, Writing, Problem, Drinking Problem

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

- George Jones

source: George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.204, Dell

topic: Drinking, Character, Lazy, Drinking Problem, Body Chemistry

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

- Daniel Silva

source: Daniel Silva (2004). “The Marching Season”, p.66, Penguin

topic: Drinking, Scotch, Alcohol, Drinking Problem

I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.

- Brian Clough

topic: Drinking, Beer, Done, Drinking Problem

Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail.

- George Carlin

source: Source: reprints.longform.org

topic: Drinking, Jail, Coke, Drinking Problem

The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

- Bradford Cox

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Drinking, Air, Self, Drinking Problem

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

- Kurt Vile

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Drinking, Alcohol, Too Much, Drinking Problem

Everybody goes through divorces. There's millions of people that have drinking problems. There's people that their weight goes up and down, just like mine. It's just life. And I think people relate to that. I really do.

- John Daly

topic: Drinking Problem

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

- Joe Eszterhas

source: Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

topic: Real, Drinking, Tough, Drinking Problem

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.

- Artie Lange

topic: Drinking, Guy, Drug, Overdose, Drinking Problem

He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.185, Penguin

topic: Drinking, Voice, Long, Drinking Problem

Every day we learn more and more about this wacky Osama bin Laden. He lives in a cave and at one time he was a womanizer. But now he has settled down with his five wives and 26 kids, so that's now all over. ... He also had a drinking problem at one time. I believe he went through 'Jihab'

- David Letterman

topic: Drinking, Believe, Kids, Wacky, Womanizer

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

- Stephen Fry

source: Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.32, The Overlook Press

topic: Drinking, Frogs, Firsts, Drinking Problem

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

- Jerry Orbach

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

topic: Fun, Drinking, Drug, Rant, Drinking Problem

I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

- T.C. Boyle

topic: Drinking, Believe, Dark, Dark Night Of The Soul, Drinking Problem

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

- Michael J. Fox

source: Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.187, Random House

topic: Drinking, Thinking, Able, Drinking Problem

Our children don't have to have drinking problems. They don't have to go through divorce or live defeated lives. You can be the one to stir them up, shake them up, and tell them there is a champion inside of them just waiting to come out. Tell them God has a plan for their lives, and they are destined to do greater things than we ever thought of doing.... You can decide to be the role model and reverse your whole generational pattern from a bad one to a good one.

- Tim Storey

topic: Children, Drinking, Divorce, God Has A Plan, Drinking Problem