Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

H. L. Mencken

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

H. L. Mencken

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

H. L. Mencken

Never drink if you've got any work to do. Never.

H. L. Mencken

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

H. L. Mencken

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

Guillermo del Toro

Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.

Grace Kelly

My nerves could use a drink.

Jessica Valenti

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

Jennie Garth

I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.

Jeanette MacDonald

I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

Gloria Gaynor

Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!

Ellen DeGeneres

For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13.

Ian Fleming

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

Hugh Laurie

Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

Homer

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

Homer

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.

Homer

But you can't stop at one, you wanna drink another woman!

If I was a bird, soaring and flying through hundreds of heavens, and if I was invisible, neither eating nor drinking anything - even so, I could not estimate Your Value.

Barry Trotz

I'd have said someone had been drinking ? heavily.

Kristi Toliver

I couldn't eat or drink anything all day. I was pretty dehydrated, but I knew this was no time to be sick. My legs still felt pretty wobbly when the game started, but I knew I had to step up my game.

William Shakespeare

I drink to the general joy of the whole table. - from Macbeth

William Shakespeare

I drink to the general joy of the whole table

Robert Shaw

I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn't drink?

Jasmine Tookes

I drink tons of water, because with the entire running around you can get dehydrated.

I drink from the tap and nothing has ever happened to me.

Hunter S. Thompson

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

Humphrey Bogart

I let my drinking do the talking.

Humphrey Bogart

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

Humphrey Bogart

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Howard Schultz

My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens.

James Dean

Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.

James Blunt

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.