Quotes about drink
William Faulkner - A Fable
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless someone will always buy him drink or weapons.
Daniel Handler -
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of raw carrots.
Simon Fowler -
Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
W. C. Fields -
I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
98% of the things said by a drunk man are true 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.
M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry
Bring me the wine tonight I drink all without dreaming you.
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords
Rivers don’t drink their own waters trees don’t eat their own fruits. The salt seasons the soup in order to have its purpose fulfilled. Live for others!
Samuel Jackson -
Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Strike the rock and the water will flow don’t wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your potentials are in put in you by God because he knows there is a need to be fulfilled awaken it and present it to us!
Kamand Kojouri -
These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!
Sanober Khan -
Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.
Jonathan Stroud - The Screaming Staircase
When you go out hunting wicked spirits, it's the simple things that matter most. The silvered point of your rapier flashing in the dark; the iron filings scattered on the floor; the sealed canisters of best Greek Fire, ready as a last resort... But tea bags, brown and fresh and plenty of them, and made (for preference) by Pitkin Brothers of Bond Street, are perhaps the simplest and best of all. OK, they may not save your life like a sword-tip or an iron circle can, and they haven't the protectiv
James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.
Kelli Russell Agodon - Hourglass Museum
A friend comes over with a Ouija board.It spells out: Bourbon. Where’s the band?Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you can’t have fun.
Émile Zola - Germinal
All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes - and elsewhere. People were so blown out and higgledy-piggledy, that everybody's elbows or knees were sticking into his neighbour and everybody thought it great fun to feel his neighbour's elbows. All mouths were grinning from ear to ear in continuous laughter.
Lilly Avalon - Here All Along: A Short Story
I need a drink. Now.”After tossing—fine, throwing—my purse and keys on the couch, I march straight into the kitchen. No more delays; it's time to forget tonight. It’s been yet another night like all the other first dates that never meet a second one. When you begin to lose count, that's when it's really time for a drink.Adrian stands there, leaning against the counter in an unbuttoned dress shirt and dark wash jeans. He glances at me as I walk in. “How was your date?” he asks, taking a swig of h
Chloe Neill - Drink Deep
PAPER TOWERSThe library was on the second floor of the House, not far from my room. It had two floors—the first held the majority of the books and a balcony wrapped in a wrought-iron railing held another set. It was a cavalcade of tomes, all in immaculate rows, and with study carrels and tables thrown in for good measure. It was my home away from home(away from home.I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge. The library was empty
George Orwell - A Nice Cup Of Tea
Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.
Stuart Rojstaczer - The Mathematician's Shiva
As far as I'm concerned, Americans don't drink nearly enough. A good alcoholic poisoning of the brain now and then clears it out in a way that nothing else can.
Kelsey Brickl - Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
Thus, in the boy’s mind, drink and destruction braided together. Intoxication, he concluded, was a swift and effective catalyst for havoc.
Sachin Kundalkar - Cobalt Blue
I didn't like Dali: now, like you, I do. Like you, I began to drink my Coke with a pinch of salt . Like you, I stopped bothering about ironed clothes. Like you, I sit with a dictionary while reading the papers. Like you, I sit on the compound wall after a bath.
Chloe Neill - Drink Deep
The world has a lot to offer. There’s a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that.
Ellen Dean -
Think champagne, drink champagne!
José N. Harris -
Ive created a new drink! I'm calling it the Piñata Colada! Its sweet and tasty, but when you wake up the next morning your head feels like its been hitten with a stick.
Nelson Algren - The Neon Wilderness
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.
Bill Callahan - Letters to Emma Bowlcut
A drink centers me but I usually make myself wait until at least 9:00 PM for that. Or 8:00 PM. Whichever comes first.
Tod Goldberg - The Reformed
Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.
Richard L. Ratliff -
Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne - Numbercaste
I have never seen anyone drink like he did. To say he drank with a vengeance is almost understating it: it was almost as if there was a thirst there, a deep and insatiable craving that made the man keep going back for more and more until he sat down in one corner with a bottle.
H.E. Bates - Seven by Five
Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast. This consisted of two quick large brandies, followed by several slower ones. By noon breakfast had become lunch and by two o'clock the pouches under and above Mrs Eglantine's bleared blue eyes began to look like large puffed pink prawns.
Nelson Algren - The Neon Wilderness
Well, I may get drunk," the Widow admitted, "but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.
Jason Medina - A Ghost In New Orleans
What’s your poison or should I just waste my money by guessing something you probably won’t even drink? I’d much rather get you something you like.
James Kirkwood Jr. - P.S. Your Cat Is Dead: A Novel
Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.
Martin Pond - Dark Steps
I soaked up the drink and it, in return, absorbed me.
James Joyce - Ulysses
She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.
Mark Capell - MYLES UNDERCOVER - four adventures for the actor turned cop
Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. I’d left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.
George R.R. Martin - A Dance with Dragons
Never drink with Dornishmen when the moon is full.
Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!
M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry
Offer me water in your palms and I will drink everlastingly.
Wayne Gerard Trotman -
Water - a thoroughly underrated drink.
ejump - 2017 -
if you think DRINKING is bad, then stop THINKING (ejump,2017)
Santosh Kalwar - Quote Me Everyday
Come on, gentleman; let us drink to our stupidity.
Dorothy Parker - Sunset Gun: Poems
One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
Robert Anthony -
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Dean Martin -
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Gilbert White -
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
John L. O'Sullivan -
A torch-light procession marching down your throat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.
Thomas Becon -
For when the wine is in the wit is out.
John Barrymore -
He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
Old saying -
He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much.
George Bernard Shaw -
I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
William Butler Yeats -
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
George Gobel -
I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.
Pliny the Elder -
In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)
Oliver Wendell Holmes -
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Old saying -
They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
Kenneth Tynan -
What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.
Dean Martin -
You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson -
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Herodotus -
The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made and if it is then approved they act on it if not they set it aside. Sometimes however they are sober at their first deliberations but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence
Bertrand Russell -
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Guiseppe Garibaldi -
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
John Erskine -
Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.
Hugh Hood -
Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.
Samuel Johnson -
Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.
Samuel Johnson -
Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.
George Jean Nathan -
I drink to make other people interesting.
Samuel Johnson -
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Jewish proverb -
The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.
Robert C. Edwards -
Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.
A. E. Housman -
Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
Bible -
A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.
George Herbert -
Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.
Sean O'Faolain -
An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.
Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald -
Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease her husband leaves her in nine out often cases when a man contracts it his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.
Randle Cotgrave -
Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.
W. C. Fields -
We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee water milk soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing I will make mine whisky.
James Thurber -
It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
Seneca -
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Francois Rabelais -
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
William Lyon Mackenzie -
He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.
Plato -
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
W. C. Fields -
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
Brendan Behan -
We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.
Humphrey Bogart -
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Oscar Levant -
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Anonymous -
I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.
Jay Leno -
They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?
Anonymous -
Enjoy life. Think of all the women who passed up dessert on the Titanic.
Anonymous -
According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks.
Tom Ralphs -
I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.
Dean Martin -
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
W. C. Fields -
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
Anonymous -
Everybody should believe in something I believe I'll have another drink.
Robert Benchley -
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
Joe E. Lewis -
I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.
Alvan L. Barach -
An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
Dean Martin -
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.