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
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
Silence is a source of great strength.
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
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
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
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
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
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. — Ed Mcmahon
Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. — W. C. Fields
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer! — Martin Luther
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it. — Salvador Dali
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing. — Willie Nelson
I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off. — John Daly
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. — William Shakespeare
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. — Oscar Wilde
I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river. — Roderick Haig-Brown
The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur
I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! — George Clooney
Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose. — Jerome Wiesner
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. — Louis J. Freeh
The older I get, the better I was. — Van Dyke Parks
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. — Stonewall Jackson
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. — Jim Butcher
My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror. — Rodney Dangerfield
Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk. — CM Punk
Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. — N. F. Simpson
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. — William Shakespeare
The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank. — James Mackintosh
Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy. — Craig Parker
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig. — Texas Bix Bender
I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety. — Richard Pryor
Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same. — Hugh Hood
Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to. — Tim Tharp
The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes. — Nicholas Culpeper
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. — Charles Bukowski
There are more old drunks than there are old doctors. — Willie Nelson
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? — Cardinal Richelieu
Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased. — Ernest Hemingway
I like to have a martini/Two at the very most. — Dorothy Parker
Given enough coffee I could rule the world — Terry Pratchett
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. — Bill Cosby
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