Quotes of Drinker - somelinesforyou

“ Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. ”

- Bible

“ I am a drinker with writing problems. ”

- Brendan Behan

“ There are more old drunkards than old physicians. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof — that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation — guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. ”

- Bible

“ I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I have never been drunk, but often I've been overserved. ”

- George Gobel

“ In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.). ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. ”

- Dean Martin

“ Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me. ”

- John Erskine

“ Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more. ”

- Robert C. Edwards

“ Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. ”

- George Herbert

“ He is… like many other geniuses, a greater friend to the bottle, than the bottle is to him. ”

- William Lyon Mackenzie King

“ I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house. ”

- Brendan Behan

“ Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ”

- Giuseppe Garibaldi

“ I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through. ”

- John Oldham

“ A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. ”

- Plato

“ Why dont we get drunk and screw? ”

- Jimmy Buffett

“ Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a day. ”

- Carmen Electra

“ A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ”

- Horace

“ No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. ”

- Horace
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