Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Saintsbury

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Jeffrey Bernard

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

Groucho Marx

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

Groucho Marx

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Groucho Marx

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

Graham Coxon

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

Gisele Bundchen

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

Gregory Hines

Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.

Iggy Pop

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

Horace

Now is the time for drinking; now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

George Carlin

The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.

Eugene O'Neill

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

Euripides

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Francis Ford Coppola

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Barry Trotz

I'd have said someone had been drinking ? heavily.

Jim Hamilton

I was trying my best not to drink. I'd go a day or two, and I just couldn't stand it. It kinda got around that 'Hamilton got religion.' So for about a year, it was the most miserable time of my life because I was secretly still drinking. One night I came home, after about a year of this, and I woke up the next day and the desire was gone.

Jerry Reed

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Jerry Seinfeld

I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking.

Jerome K. Jerome

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

Educating our communities about ways to reduce underage drinking will help protect our youth. We have seen too many tragedies involving underage drinking, and we must all do our part to prevent them.

Jane Austen

Drinking too much of Mr Weston's good wine.

Drinking and driving don't mix on New Year's Eve or at any other time.

John Pierce

We are still trying to find people who might have been drinking with him (Mr Arregin) or can tell us what he was doing earlier that night, or afterwards,

Jeremy Jackson

I've been drinking and just got really mad that my friend was punched in the face for no reason.

What's going on is he's not happy with the situation he's in. His drinking is a symptom of that, not the problem.

Dan Andriano

We figured it's about time we tried to put on a really good show. It's hard to do that when you're going out drinking every night.

Dogen

In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

We've had several people get engaged here on Valentine's Day. One time we put an engagement ring in the glass of wine so when she started drinking it she noticed the ring. I actually suggested that to the guy because that's what I did when I got engaged. One year we even had a wedding on Valentine's Day.

To some degree, they're going after people who are relatively new to the drinking age, to keep them from mixing a spirit with an energy drink. With the fruit beers, the stereotype is it's marketed toward women. There are just so many other options out there today.

We're taking a system down that can do the whole project - all the way to drinking water if they need us to do that.

There's no reason for kids to be drinking sports drinks during school when they're not exercising or playing sports.

Sandra Postel

There's not enough water to grow all the food that the region needs to grow for itself, and provide enough drinking water and water for industry.