Augusten Burroughs Quotes

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

I don't drink as much as I use to could.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

Once in a while I'll drink a rum-and-Coke but that's all, and only once in a while.

I think if you drink too much and you're told you drink too much, typically you don't like it. I know I didn't.

A good glass of red wine or maybe a little bit too much every now and then is just fine. Heavy boozing, not so much, because you don't recover enough from it.

I drink Jack Daniel's. I drink tequila. But you do it in moderation.