Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucille Roybal-Allard

With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

Lorna Luft

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

Michael Jackson

Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

Michel de Montaigne

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

Michel de Montaigne

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Mark Twain

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Mark Twain

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

Mark Hoppus

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

Marian Burros

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

Marguerite Duras

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

Marguerite Duras

What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

Maria Edgeworth

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Mike Bryan

I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient.

Koren Zailckas

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

Kinky Friedman

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

Oscar Levant

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Oscar Levant

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Olivia Wilde

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

Oliver Reed

I've been drinking. Now I'm going to drink some more.

Oliver Reed

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

Oliver Reed

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

Oliver Reed

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Kinky Friedman

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

Mark Twain

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Mark Twain

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Mark Twain

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Mark Twain

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Mark Twain

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Mark Twain

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Oscar Wilde

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne