Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

He's an angel. Isn't he supposed to love everyone, even the damned? Especially when said damned are his drinking buddies.

Rebecca West

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Ryan Lewis

I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.

Rita Mae Brown

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

Richard Matheson

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

Thomas Paine

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous....

Thomas Huxley

I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. There is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my part, I consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.

Thomas de Quincey

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

Robert Mondavi

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

Robert Koch

Our studies have shown that all cases of typhoid of this type have arisen by contact, that is, carried directly from one person to another. There was no trace of a connection to drinking water.

Robert Anton Wilson

Each mans spills the drink he loves.

Stephen Fry

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

Sam Snead

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

Rush Limbaugh

Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of the head is for your drink.

Tom Waits

...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.

Tom Waits

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Thomas Haden Church

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.

Thomas Haden Church

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

Tim Wise

When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

Thomas Love Peacock

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

Roseanne Barr

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.

Roger Ebert

Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.

Robert Wyatt

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

Robert Rankin

Have you ever head this theory about drinking yourself sober?' Eddie asked. 'It's a very popular theory. Amongst drunks, anyway.

Sarah Vowell

I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.