Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Phillips

I was drinking tequila and I woke up in the morning and there was no one there, except the worm and myself were still there.

Two Chainz

I'm drunk and high at the same time/Drinking champagne on the airplane.

Pokey Reese

He was on drugs. He did the drinking thing. He used to party a lot. That's in his past now.

Janet Wu

Had you been drinking at all that night?

Robert E. Lee

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Richelle Mead

God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it.” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite.” “Sure,” she said.

Rebecca West

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Ryan Lewis

I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.

Russell Lynes

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Richard P. Feynman

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

Rebecca West

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Robert Motherwell

The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations...

Samuel Rutherford

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Samuel Johnson

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.

Samuel Johnson

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

Samuel Johnson

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.

Vittorio Grigolo

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish...

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

John Adams

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Ovid

Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees.

Mark Twain

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.