Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Goodkind

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Tennessee Williams

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.

Simone de Beauvoir

it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

Simon Pegg

If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.

Rick Riordan

She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doing the same thing. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

Remy de Gourmont

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

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.

Raoul Vaneigem

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When he’s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, he’s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.

Thomas Jefferson

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

Robert E. Lee

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Rob Corddry

I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"

Voltaire

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

William T. Vollmann

So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

William Proxmire

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

William Butler Yeats

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

William Butler Yeats

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

Walter Russell

Defeat I shall not know. It shall not touch me. I will meet it with true thinking. Resisting it will be my strengthening. But if, perchance, the day shall give to me the bitter cup, it shall sweeten in the drinking.

Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Walter Scott

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Winona LaDuke

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist

Winston Churchill

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Winston Churchill

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

William Wycherley

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

William Nicholson

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

William J. Clinton

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

Will Durant

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

William Faulkner

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

William Faulkner

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

Winston Churchill

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.