Kris Kristofferson Quotes

He who drinks too much beer must drink water

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

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

It is not the multitude of ale-houses ... that occasions a general disposition to drunkenness among the common people; but that disposition, arising from other causes, necessarily gives employment to a multitude of ale-houses

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...'

After the White House, what is there to do but drink?

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

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.

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

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

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.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

They who drink beer will think beer.

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

I drank beer, and I had a career year.