Famous Quotes & Sayings

Queen Victoria

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice ...

Maggie Stiefvater

I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.

Gustave Flaubert

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

John Dryden

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Katherine Heigl

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

Kate Hudson

Paris was incredible. Everything about it for me, from spending hours eating, drinking and talking to walking through the streets...at that time I hadn't seen that sort of political passion in the youth, and I got to experience that first hand.

Josh Radnor

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

Joseph Haydn

The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

Lars Frederiksen

I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

John Keats

A quote about drinking is a joy forever

John Keats

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

Martin Luther

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

Martin Luther

Beer is made by men, wine by God.

Martin Luther

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

Martin Luther

Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

Martin Luther

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Nancy Astor

Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ...

Nancy Astor

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

Ozzy Osbourne

I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

Ozzy Osbourne

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

Paul O'Grady

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

Nelson DeMille

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

Rachel Maddow

I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.

John Green

He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

Patti Smith

I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.

P. J. O'Rourke

They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, 'the Irish of Asia'.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Martin Gore

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

Mario Puzo

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.