#drinking

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ↗

— Martin Luther

#devil #drinking #temptation #men

Oh, yeah.” Carissa nodded. “They were googley-eyed in class on Friday. It was pretty steamy, the whole ‘I’m screwing you with my eyes’ thing they had going on.” I choked on my drink. “That was not what we were doing. We were talking! ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#daemon #katy #drinking

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hermione-granger #rita-skeeter #drinking

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. ↗

— Aeschylus

#clear #drinking #drinking water #find #good

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. ↗

— David Bailey

#body #concern #deeply #drinking #dull

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#inspirational #inspirational

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. ↗

— George Best

#drinking #i #only #stopped #while

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares. ↗

— John Clare

#anything #been #companions #drinking #easy

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#drinking #thinking #worse #you

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

— Laura Kightlinger

#drinking #happy #i #know #now