81 quotes found
“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”
“They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.”
“The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. "Why did you and your folk three times try ...”
“I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?”
“I don't cook anything fancy. Sheba's appetite isn't up to much and I've never been one for sauces. We eat nursery food mainly. Beans on toast, Welsh rarebit, fish fingers. Sheba leans against the o...”
“Soylent Green is made out of people. So is your personal network… but let’s hope its non-toxic because you drink it every day.”
“Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.”
“All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Désir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes - and elsewhere. People...”
“First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.”
“For when the wine is in the wit is out.”
“He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.”
“I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.”
“I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.”
“What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.”
“Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.”
“The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.”
“A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.”
“Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.”
“It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.”
“He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.”
