Quotes about Drinking

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

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

In dog beers, I've only had one.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.