Drinking Quotes - Page 26

• I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Oxygen, Smoking, Swim

  "The Guardian - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fall when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Wise, Coffee

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Dancing, Dancer

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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• Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

  Mark Twain

  Beer, Politics, Liquid

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.151, Xist Publishing

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• No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Views

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

  Mark Twain

  Abstinence, Liquor, Pledge

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.360, Courier Corporation

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• See Social-life and Glee sit down,
  All joyous and unthinking,
  Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
  Debauchery and Drinking

  Robert Burns

  Change, Glee, Debauchery

  Robert Burns (1854). “Life and Works”, p.225

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• The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Trust, Men, Loyal

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

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• Dead drunk
  is the term I think of,
  insensible,
  neither cool nor warm,
  without a head or a foot.
  To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Feet, Drunk

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.

  Mae West

  Sheep, Medicine, Littles

  "Fictional character: Cuthbert J. Twillie". "My Little Chickadee", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

  James Boswell

  Play, Criticism, Damnation

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.

  Alexis Soyer

  Glasses, Would Be, Dull

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.400

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• Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

  Anthony Trollope

  Wisdom, Age, Midnight

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.154

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• Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

  Jane Jacobs

  Party, Home, Cities

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• (Those women whom the distaff
  no longer claims
  nor spun cloth)
  driven made,
  mad,
  mad
  by Bacchus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Mad, Worship, Driven

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• Aside from some extra fiber, eating two slices of whole wheat bread is really little different, and often worse, than drinking a can of sugar-sweetened soda or eating a sugary candy bar.

  William Davis

  Two, Different, Bars

  William Davis (2014). “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health”, p.33, Rodale

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• I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

  Mario Puzo

  Wine, Age, Used

  "Fictional character: Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

  Frederick The Great

  Kings, War, Coffee

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'

  Adam Sandler

  Father, Night, Names

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• I was a sober as the next guy. The only problem is the next guy was Dean Martin

  Red Skelton

  Guy, Next, Problem

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• I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

  John Daly

  Golf, Thinking, Years

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• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  John Michael Hayes

  Running, Years, Oklahoma

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• Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

  Christina Stead

  Europe, Tea, India

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.419, The Miegunyah Press

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• Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Self, Soul, Ugly

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• Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Adversity, Hands

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