Drink Quotes - Page 19

• It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

  Walker Percy

  Kissing, Car, Littles

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.

  David Walker

  Mother, Children, Believe

  David Walker (2011). “Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America”, p.30, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• I had been with a good friend, had a few beers, didn't bother to eat, went down to the hotel where the party was, walked in and, God I don't know why, because I hardly ever drink it, I had a double scotch. And I had another.

  John Riggins

  Party, Beer, Good Friend

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• It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Sleep, Important, Listening To Music

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• The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

  James Branch Cabell

  Wine, Way, Rendering

  James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed. But, all the way to St. Petersburg, the Finn will drink himself into forgetfulness, lose his money, horse, bridle, and return home poorer than a church rat.

  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

  Horse, Home, Wine

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• You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that spring, do not go near it. You will find another spring that pours from the lake of Memory, cool water gushes out of it. There are guards in front of it. Address these words to them: I am daughter of the earth and the star-covered Sky, and I descend from the Sky; and that you know; I burn and die of thirst; let me drink quickly of the cool water that gushes from the lake of Memory. And they will allow you to drink from the sacred spring.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Daughter, Stars, Memories

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• I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.

  Ray Conniff

  Smile, New York, Fun

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• When I lose, I drink, and when I win I celebrate.

  Bo Belinsky

  Winning, Celebrate, Loses

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• Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall.  You can't get that bottle back!

  Len Evans

  Wall, Bottles, Fine

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• To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.

  Alberto Korda

  Memories, Names, Drunk

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• At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
  But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Sweet, Thinking, Privilege

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.171

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• We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.

  Annie Leonard

  Running, Home, Numbers

  Annie Leonard (2010). “The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.

  Bernard d'Espagnat

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Running, Risk, Toxic

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• My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants. She listens to the news on the radio. She drinks her coffee. She has a quick wash. An hour later, at seven, her day is over. Two months ago a neighbour told her about your blog, and she asked me to buy her one of those thingummyjigs – by a thingummyjig she meant a computer. And since then, thanks to your trimmings, your ribbon bows, your tie-backs for curtains, she’s rediscovered the joys of life. So don’t tell me you don’t know any answers.

  Gregoire

  Mother, Morning, Coffee

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• In my perfect world order, it is cold all the time. Everyone wears sweaters and drinks coffee. People don't speak to each other; they read the newspaper. There is no loud music, and cats are in charge.

  Michael Showalter

  Coffee, Cat, Sweaters

  Michael Showalter (2011). “Mr. Funny Pants”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.

  Genghis Khan

  Drinking, Men, Drunk

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• Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars,
  blown about us by the wind, and drink the
  universe in a glass of rain.

  Ihab Hassan

  Stars, Rain, Glasses

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• I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

  Trisha Goddard

  London, Holes

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• Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Math, Thinking

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• Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Wise, Morning, Equality

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• Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

  Sidney Howard

  People, Ruins, Reputation

  Sidney Coe Howard (1980). “GWTW, the screenplay”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Lonely, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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