Drink Quotes - Page 36

• In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Sublime

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• Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

  Zhuangzi

  Horse, Real, Wind

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Long, Serious

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.441, Delphi Classics

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• No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kings, Jobs, Fall

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• Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.

  Lisa S.

  Running, Sex, Making Love

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• Once a vampire drinks another vampires blood they are connected to them forever

  Julie Plec

  Blood, Forever, Vampire

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• I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

  Brad Delson

  Spring, Beer, Water

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• Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

  Russell Baker

  Crush, Baseball, Sleep

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Creating, People

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• No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Names, Cider

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• Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

  Matthew Healy

  Coffee, Boys, Care

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• I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,
  I'm not the man to insist on asphodel.
  This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think?
  It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

  Edith Sitwell

  Men, Thinking, Smell

  "Taken Care Of" by Edith Sitwell, (p. 118), 1965.

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• The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

  Juvenal

  Girl, Gay, Happy Life

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• When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

  John Lennon

  Suicide, Drinking, Believe

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• The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.138, Faber & Faber

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• Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong.

  William Maginn

  People, Alcohol, Should

  William Maginn (1885). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”

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• You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Night, People

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• I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

  Edmund Wilson

  Hands, Next Day, Pay

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• In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

  Molly Ivins

  Cities, Bars, Paper

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.235, Vintage

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• Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

  John Berryman

  Funny, Song, Drinking

  1964 'Dream Song No.63'.

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• I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

  John Galsworthy

  Wine, Drug, Dull

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• But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Comfort, Want, Matter

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• Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

  Jay McInerney

  Motto, My Motto

  Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Upset, Bazaars

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

  Israel Shenker

  Oasis, Desert, Restoration

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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