Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

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.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

And certainly don't get caught by the press having too much to drink, you now, that sort of thing.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

Abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.