Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

Al Purdy

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

Chester Bennington

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Chanakya

Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

Charles Baudelaire

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

Charles Baudelaire

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

Charles Baudelaire

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

Charles Baudelaire

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Bob Brown

Coffee in Brazil is always made fresh and, except at breakfast time, drunk jet black from demitasses first filled almost to the brim with the characteristic moist, soft coffee sugar of the country, which melts five times as fast as our hard granulated. For breakfast larger cups are used, and they're more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn't re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.

Kurt Vonnegut

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

Alexander Alekhine

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Calamity Jane

I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

Caitlin Moran

I read something once that when you're online, your inhibitions are lowered to the state where you've had three drinks. Once you basically know that the entire internet is slightly drunk, it all makes a lot more sense, and you deport yourself accordingly.

Carl Jung

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.

We're starting to put the squeeze on drunken drivers.

Bertrand Russell

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

Elizabeth Taylor

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

Arthur Keith

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

Ava Gardner

I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and from Artie Shaw's verbal abuse. But George [C. Scott] was a different category of animal when he got drunk. He'd break into my hotel room, which he did in Italy, London and at the Beverly Hills Hotel, attack me to where I was frightened for my life, and scream, 'Why won't you marry me?' Well, I would never marry a man who couldn't control his liquor. Me, I'm a happy drunk. I laugh, I dance. I certainly don't break bottles and threaten to kill.

There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.

Ashley Greene

I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.

Brendan Behan

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

George William Russell

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

Jandy Nelson

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

Jase Robertson

Going to a bar or pool hall doesn’t mean you’re a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn’t make you a chicken. It’s the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn’t make you a follower of Christ.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

Bill Maher

Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called Sin City is allowed to be a drunk.

Bob Marley

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.