Quotes on Drinking

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.

I let my drinking do the talking.

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

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

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote._x000D_ _x000D_ A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat._x000D_ _x000D_ So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.