There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.
Thomas Love Peacock

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
Esther Williams

There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
Rick Moranis

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.
Kristin Davis

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
Lorna Luft

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
Jon Corzine

We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road.
Johnny Mercer

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Marguerite Duras

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
Joseph Barbera

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.
Craig Ferguson

When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
Alex Lifeson

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Jimmy Breslin

With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil Gibran