Franklin Pierce Quotes

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

That was my first real connection with Dre - that we both liked to drink.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

He [Peter the Great] took his bottle heartily, so must all the company; for when he was merry himself he loved to see everybody so; though at the same time he could not endure habitual drinkers, for such he thought unfit for business.

There was one civil custom used in (and in few but) the English nation, which this gentleman did endeavour to abolish in this country; and that was, the usage of drinking to one another. For although by drinking to one another, no more is meant than an act of courtesie, when one going to drink, does invite another to do so too, for the same ends with himself; nevertheless the governour considered the impertinency and insignifcancy of this usage, as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it ; and that indeed it ordinarily served for no ends at all, but only to provoke persons unto, unseasonable and perhaps unreasonable drinking, and at last produce that abominable health-drinking.

He who drinks too much beer must drink water

Drinking is the joy of the Russes. We cannot live without that pleasure

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.