drink quotes

• An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. (Daniel Defoe) [willpower//willpower]
• If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why. (Henry Aldrich) [think//wine/being]
• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Francis Bacon) [wine//trust]
• Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. (Roland Barthes) [countries///pleasure]
• Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. (John Berryman) []
• Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. (Claude M. Bristol) [/youth/wish]
• When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. (Samuel Butler) [water/]
• Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [wine/beer//think]
• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things. ( Confucius) [water//joy]
• There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod! (Aleister Crowley) []
• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. (Charles Dickens) [memory/thing//magic]
• We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. (Denis Diderot) [/truth]
• Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. (George Herbert) []
• They who drink beer will think beer. (Washington Irving) [/beer/willpower/think]
• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. (Samuel Johnson) [men/]
• We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -- we remember only. (Henry Miller) [mind///wild]
• Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) (Dorothy Parker) [/love]
• Drink to me. (Pablo Picasso) []
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. (Alexander Pope) [knowledge/thing//taste]
• There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. (George Santayana) [men/food/]
• Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. (William Shakespeare) []
• Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways? (William Shakespeare) [willpower//night]
• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. (William Shakespeare) []
• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off. (William Shakespeare) [desire/]
• Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. ( Socrates) [people/love//people]
• I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. (Henry David Thoreau) []
• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines. (Henry David Thoreau) [//taste/]
• Water is the only drink for a wise man. (Henry David Thoreau) [water/]
• Sometimes too much drink is barely enough. (Mark Twain) []
• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. (Gore Vidal) [writers/take//take]
• 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) [share/men/]

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