Drink Sayings & Quotes
These drink sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness. - Edgar Allan Poe
To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck. - Buddha
The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. - Alfred Edward Housman
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
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. - Bertrand Russell
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. [Essay on Criticism] - Alexander Pope
No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single. - Herman Melville
We have only a slim chance of getting through the problems that face us now, but if too many Miniver Cheevys sit back to drink and long for a non-existent past, that slim chance will decrease to zero. - Isaac Asimov
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. - Brandan F. Behan
High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us, As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, They will drink our health's at dinner, those who tell us how they love us, And forget us till another year be gone! - Rudyard Kipling
We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we Will drink to him, whate'er he be, And sing the songs he loved to hear. - Lord Alfred Tennyson
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau
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
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. - F. Scott Fitzgerald