Drinking Quotes - Page 27

• The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.

  Morrie Ryskind

  Running, Spring, Water

  "Fictional character: Captain Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", 1930.

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• If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking.

  Tom Ford

  Needs, London, Quitting

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

  Nick Offerman

  Garbage, Miserable, Starting

  Interview with Elina Shatkin, www.believermag.com. October 2012.

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• 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.

  Olivia Wilde

  Healthy, Common, Sober

  Source: collider.com

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• I think you have you to give people the facts [about global warming], and then you have to tell them, this is not like drinking Castor Oil. There is a, an economically exciting way for us to create a whole new generation of American jobs without costing them an enormous amount of money or forcing them to change their lifestyle.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Thinking, Oil

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.

  Matthew Lillard

  Party, Play, World

  "Matthew Lillard Talks Fat Kid Rules the World, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'

  Tina Fey

  Iraq, Risk, Victory

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• Every day we learn more and more about this wacky Osama bin Laden. He lives in a cave and at one time he was a womanizer. But now he has settled down with his five wives and 26 kids, so that's now all over. ... He also had a drinking problem at one time. I believe he went through 'Jihab'

  David Letterman

  Believe, Kids, Wife

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• Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Order, Lust, Sensual

  "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 83, 1845.

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• This is a pretty shitty flash mob. It's in my living room, only my family showed up, and they're just telling me to stop drinking.

  Megan Amram

  Rooms, My Family, Flash

  Megan Amram @meganamram, twitter.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Young, wild, and free, my whole life ahead of me. So I'm drinking heavily, steadily making memories.

  Mike Stud

  Memories, Wild And Free, Young

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• The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Poison, Taste

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• ..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, School, Son

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Drunk, Dead Man

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

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• Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

  Mason Cooley

  Friends, Accomplices

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• Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited they are.

  Conan O'Brien

  Crazy, Thinking, Iran

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• President Bush wants to build a space station on the moon. And from the moon, he wants to launch people to Mars. You know what this means. He's been drinking again.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Moon, Space

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• Are two people drinking from the same bottle of wine having a common experience?

  Jamie Goode

  Wine, Two, People

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• Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

  Kent Bach

  Wine, Doe, Pleasure

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

  Walter Scott

  Greatness, Kind, Habit

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• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Loss, Gambling

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• A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wine, Character, Vices

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• I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Writing, Gentleman, Clubs

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.416, OUP Oxford

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• When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Coffee, Past

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.45, Penguin

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• To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

  Anton Chekhov

  Vocabulary, Cynical, Literature

  Letter to N.A. Leikin, December 24, 1886.

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