Famous Quotes & Sayings

And he was drinking the whole time he was here.

The materials don't even have the guts to urge kids to drink less soda pop, or eat less candy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Holly Black

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.

Joni Mitchell

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.

Joni Mitchell

I could drink a case of you.

Jonathan Swift

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Kurt Angle

You want ME in the ring? Now I know you've been drinking

Ludwig Feuerbach

This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.

Lord Byron

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Chesterfield

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

Lord Chesterfield

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

Malcolm Lowry

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

Malcolm Forbes

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Maimonides

The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.

Gail Carriger

I Preserve the nonviable embryo in formaldehyde for future study. Lord Maccon has been drinking my samples. When confronted, he admitted to be enjoying both the refreshing beverage and the 'crunchy pickled snack' as well. I was not pleased" (Professor Lyall to Madame Lefoux)

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Oksana Baiul

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Orhan Pamuk

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

Omar Khayyam

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

Omar Khayyam

A drink is shorter than a tale

Omar Khayyam

Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

Omar Khayyam

Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Ellen Glasgow

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Ellen G. White

If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.

Eric Schlosser

Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.

Epicurus

The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.