81 quotes found
“All round there was a rising tide of beer, widow Dsir's barrels had all been broached, beer had rounded all paunches and was overflowing in all directions, from noses, eyes - and elsewhere. People ...”
“We drink one another's health and spoil our own.”
“One more drink and I'd have been under the host.”
“What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.”
“You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”
“I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.”
“The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to whic...”
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”
“Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.”
“Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.”
“Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same.”
“Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.”
“Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.”
“I drink to make other people interesting.”
“One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
“The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.”
“Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.”
“Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.”
“A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry.”
“Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.”
