It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. — Mark Twain
Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one. — Charles Bukowski
It pays to get drunk with the best people. — Joe E. Lewis
Short Drinking Quotes
Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly? — Bob Marley
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
I drink to make other people more interesting. — Ernest Hemingway
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking. — Lemmy Kilmister
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. — Dean Martin
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball. — Ice Cube
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. — Anton Chekhov
Drinking Image Quotes
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. — Carrie Fisher
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. — Humphrey Bogart
I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor. — Dean Martin
Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long. — Tom Petty
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Excellent Food Quotes
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire
An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach. — George du Maurier
Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too. — Nicola Sturgeon
Trust me, You can dance.
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion. — John Kenneth Galbraith
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses. — Maimonides
Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do. — Ernest Hemingway
Give a man a bottle of wine, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to make wine, he'll always have lots of friends
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food — Steve Albini
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV. — Ian Mckellen
There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too! — Troy Polamalu
I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking. — Heston Blumenthal
Good Drinking Quotes
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them. — Queen Victoria
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ — Humphrey Bogart
Live in the sunshine. Swim the sea. Drink the wild air.
Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. — Jim Morrison
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
I drink to make other people more interesting
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. — Frank Sinatra
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially. — Denzel Washington
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. — Denzel Washington
I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea. — Ned Kelly
Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. — Enrico Caruso
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. — Woody Allen
If it went on the ballot in Colorado,
I would vote to lower the drinking age. — Pete Coors
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. — W. C. Fields
Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at. — Jackie Gleason
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. — William Shakespeare
Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer. — W. C. Fields
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde
I'm gaining weight the right way: I'm drinking beer. — Johnny Damon
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. — Ed Mcmahon
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. — Aeschylus
I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull. — Paris Hilton
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are. — Adolphus Busch
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. — Oscar Levant
Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider! — Prince William
All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead. — Jean Sibelius
Alcohol is for drinking, gas is for cleaning parts, and nitro is for racing! — Don Garlits
Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. — W. C. Fields
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