Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Pearl

Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.

Matthew Perry

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

Plautus

It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.

Plato

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

Philip Larkin

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't know, I was young, I drank too much, you know, so I stopped. You know what I mean, it's not really complicated. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

Phil Keoghan

I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

Kurt Angle

You want ME in the ring? Now I know you've been drinking

Khaled Hosseini

Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breaithing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can manage is a croak. Your hands wriggle and shake. Somewhere a dam has cracked open and a flood of cold sweat spills, drenches your body. You want to scream. You would if you could. Cut you have to breathe to scream. Panic.

Khaled Hosseini

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

Oksana Baiul

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Orhan Pamuk

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

Omar Khayyam

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

Omar Khayyam

A drink is shorter than a tale

Omar Khayyam

Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

Omar Khayyam

Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

These kids will be pressured to drink alcohol.

This hobby, it's like gambling or drinking or road rage.

Eric Idle

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

The idea is to sip and savor a drink or two.

Robert Thompson

The home run he hit out of the park -- his most famous hit and what he will always be known for -- is a really great song named after a mixed drink, ... And it's one you tend to drink when you're in moments of festivity.

The industry is largely unregulated. As far as soft drinks are concerned, there's no process for getting them tested and approved.

Patrick Brady

All the water we drink has already been treated. The point is everybody is downstream of somebody. Personally, I wouldn't want to drink anything that hadn't been through a reverse osmosis filter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

Jo Brand

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

Shawn Amos

The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.