1,261 Quotes About Drinking

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress.

Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love.

Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.

- Mr. Alakbarov, how much is the rent for this fantastic apartment?- Madam, this is the red wine aisle of the grocery store.

What is this place?’‘Heaven.’ She laughed, ‘with better drinks!

He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.

Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.