Drinking Quotes

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up... there are too many people.

Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Champagne is the only drink that leaves a woman still beautiful after drinking it.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

If I have one, I'll have thirteen. No, there ain't no in-betwee. Cuz the more I drink, the more I drink, the more I drink.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

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

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

I drink no more than a sponge.