Doug Stanhope Quotes

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

I don't care about the drinking, I just want to be able to go hang out and not have to worry about being too young.

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.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

That no one shall invite another to drink under penalty of 3 sous….If anyone be found intoxicated he shall pay for the first offence 3 sous and shall be remanded to the consistory ; for the second offence he shall he held to pay the sum of 6 sous, and for the third 10 sous and be put in prison.

An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the City of Annapolis, or within five miles thereof, to minors and people of color.

I used to go to the saloons with the baseball players, and while they would drink highballs and gin fizzes and beer, I would take lemonade

Living in London, drinking has just been a big part of growing up here. It's always been readily available.

Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

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.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

This day we have held a council, and it is agreed by the Shawnee in general that whatever rum is in our towns shall be broke and split and not drunk; and whosoever shall bring any rum or any sort of strong drink into our towns, Indian or white man, let it be little or much, it shall be broke or split in the presence of the whole town…

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

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

Across decades, the toll of deaths related to fraternity revelry and recklessness is surely in the hundreds. And while physical stress plays a role in some fatalities, most reflect the kind of extreme drinking that’s in the DNA of so-called Greek life. Do we need any cause beyond all of that dying to do away with fraternities wherever possible and to diminish their prominence at schools where various circumstances, including the housing that fraternities provide, prevent them from being shuttered?

I didn't drink in high school, and neither did any of my boyfriends.

My wife doesn't drink. I don't think a girl's desire to drink or not has any effect on guys. At all.

I hear how Drew Barrymore grew up going to the bars - I was never allowed.

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

When we were younger, but still of legal drinking age, it would be things like Goldschlager or peppermint schnapps. Things like that are not something I ever enjoyed.