Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Calvin Trillin

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

Petra Nemcova

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'm not the girl that sits at home on a Saturday night plaiting her girlfriend's hair, drinking tea and watching romantic comedies.

Yesterday, we only had about three or four people signed up, but I think once people start drinking some beer, we'll have a real contest,

You just take the water for granted and you use it as you normally would. But then you go somewhere else, and you start drinking their water. You can taste the difference.

Jonathan Tucker

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.

William Shakespeare

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

Casey Stengel

We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.

John Pierce

We are still trying to find people who might have been drinking with him (Mr Arregin) or can tell us what he was doing earlier that night, or afterwards,

Jo Brand

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

James Thurber

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Joe Perry

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

John Belushi

My advice to you... is to start drinking heavily.

Garrison Keillor

A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

Frank Dobson

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.

George Clooney

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

And he was drinking the whole time he was here.

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.

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 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.