Drinking Quotes - Page 17

• What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

  Lou Reed

  Love Is, Scotch, Alcohol

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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• I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'

  Ross Kemp

  Daughter, Bad Relationship, Soldier

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• National 21 drinking age, huh, what do you think about that? A bunch of malarkey, whatever malarkey is, man, it's a whole bunch of it.

  Mojo Nixon

  Men, Thinking, Age

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• He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

  Elton John

  Religious, Angel, Singing

  Song: Religion Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

  Holly Sklar

  School, Vaccines, Safety

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• Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Princess, Thinking, People

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• Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

  Johnny Cash

  War, Marine, Answers

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• I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Thinking, Rivers, Space

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• Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Boxing, Giving, Smoking

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• The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

  Waverley Root

  Character, Fiction, Literature

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• As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Money, Thinking, Cafes

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.45

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• If she drinks beer, she's a keeper.

  Granger Smith

  Beer, Keepers, Ifs

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• The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

  Luc de Clapiers

  World, Body, Objects

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• Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Shopping, Awareness

  Ernest Becker (1985). “The Denial of Death”, New York : Free Press

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• Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

  Edward M Hays

  Happiness, Children, Heart

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• Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Compassion, Vices, Meat

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• I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

  Winslow Homer

  Giving Up, Mistake, Size

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• Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

  Michael Moriarty

  Sports, Art, Water

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• Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.

  Christopher Love

  Religious, Heart, Temptation

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• You're not really drinking coffee unless you drink it black, don't you think? Oh, no? You like to monkey with it?

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Thinking, Black

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• The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

  Gerald R. Ford

  Patriotic, Lunch, Three

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks to the National Restaurant Association, in Chicago, Illinois, May 28, 1978.

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• Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

  Will Rogers

  Prohibition, Liquor

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• Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them.

  John Muir

  Fall, Earthquakes, Voice

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.95, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

  Buddy Guy

  Thinking, Drunk, Ifs

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• When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Nuts, Feet

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