Pastoral Resources

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking.

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

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.