Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Epictetus

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Emily Dickinson

I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

Henry Ward Beecher

Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Joe E. Lewis

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Joe E. Lewis

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

Joe E. Lewis

I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Joe E. Lewis

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

Joe Eszterhas

I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, or whatever else we want to do.

Joe Eszterhas

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Jimmy Breslin

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Jim Morrison

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

John Holdren

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control.

John Huston

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Phil Ochs

Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer.

Edgar Allan Poe

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Edgar Allan Poe

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

People are very, very frustrated by lack of a federal response. One of the top things in their minds was pure and wholesome drinking water.