Drinking famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
-- A. E. Housman -
Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
-- A. E. Housman -
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.
-- A. E. Housman -
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
-- A. E. Housman -
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.
-- Abbi Glines -
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?
-- Abraham Cowley -
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
-- Adam Lambert -
Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.
-- Adam Sandler -
I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and ***** out for no one.
-- Adele -
It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.
-- Agnes Repplier -
If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
-- Aisha Tyler -
All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.
-- Al Capone -
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
-- Al Capone -
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
-- Alain de Botton -
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
-- Alain Robert -
A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.
-- Alan Kay -
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
-- Alcaeus -
Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.
-- Alcuin -
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.
-- Alex Blackwell -
My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.
-- Alex Trebek -
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
-- Alexander Pope -
D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.
-- Alexis Lichine -
The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking
-- Alexis Lichine -
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
-- Alfred Adler -
We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods above, Filled from the heart to the lips with love, Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings, O love, my love, had you loved but me!
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Hey, I am thinking of it myself, in this part of world (East), we all do endeavors in praying and are sweating (white liquid) and this is our situation, frustrated , but on the other part of world (West) ,they are enjoying in party and drinking liquor (white liquid) but their situation is that, successful, I do not know that the problem relates to the type of liquid or the way of drinking!!
-- Ali Shariati -
Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.
-- Alice Cooper -
Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.
-- Alice May -
There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.
-- Alma Katsu -
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Once I started drinking more water, my skin, hair and nails all flourished.
-- America Ferrera -
It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.
-- Amy Hempel -
You know what the worst part about my drinking is? When I'm drunk I slur. You know, like I say racial slurs. Wow, nobody likes that at a barbeque.
-- Amy Schumer -
I have an excuse, actually, why I've been drinking so much. I haven't said this out loud yet - this is exciting - I'm drinking for two. Thank you, wow. I mean, just for now. Somebody's being evicted.
-- Amy Schumer -
If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.
-- Amy Sedaris -
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
-- Amy Tan -
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
-- Amy Winehouse -
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?
-- Amy Winehouse -
Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
-- Andrea Corr -
[from The One and Only Official Mr. Gum Official Glossary That Tells You What Words Mean by Explaining Them Using Other Words] : Cups of tea: People in England are always drinking cups of tea. "Oh let's have a cup of tea " they say. "That will prove we are English and not American." Sometimes American people try to have cups of tea to pretend they are English but forget it We can always tell you are faking it
-- Andy Stanton -
I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.
-- Angelina Jolie -
The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days
-- Angelo Dundee -
Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.
-- Anistatia R. Miller -
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.
-- Anita Shreve -
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
-- Ann Landers -
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
-- Anne Bronte -
Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.
-- Anne Fine -
I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she went to buy liquor, she returned to find her daughter with tears running down her cheeks. The guilt and horror Ms. Robinson felt at this sight jolted her into sobriety.
-- Anne Robinson -
Im at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.
-- Anne Wojcicki -
The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
-- Anton du Beke -
Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.
-- Aravind Adiga -
I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that's why we Indian are going to beat you: we may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy. If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I am just a murderer!
-- Aravind Adiga -
When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.
-- Archpoet -
I like to go to the frat house and drink with my white friends, because anytime you go drinking at the frat house, white boys bring you a drink and hand it to you like it's a top CIA secret. They'll hand me my drink, and I'll go, 'Man, what the hell is in this?' 'Dude, don't worry. Don't ask, just drink it. I'll see you in 20 minutes.' Next thing you know, I'm buck naked, standing on a coffee table, with a cowboy hat.
-- Aries Spears -
I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle [of Coca-Cola] a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties.
-- Art Buchwald -
The best way to die is sit under a tree, eat lots of bologna and salami, drink a case of beer, then blow up.
-- Art Donovan -
Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
-- Arthur Baer -
As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
-- Artie Lange -
A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
-- Artie Lange -
I'm not going to lie to you fellas, I've been drinking
-- Artie Lange -
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 -
[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.
-- Auguste Piccard -
I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus...
-- Augustus De Morgan -
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.
-- Aulus Cornelius Celsus -
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her cheeks. She's the one you can't put down.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
-- Barry Goldwater -
I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
-- Barry Hannah -
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'
-- Barry Long -
The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.
-- Bassui Tokusho -
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...
-- Beatrice Webb -
My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
My secret is one the world needs to know - nearly a billion people a year die from unsafe drinking water.
-- Bella Thorne -
The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
-- Ben Jonson -
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
-- Ben Jonson -
I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
-- Benjamin Franklin
