John Dryden Quotes

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

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?

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

If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

I'd like to help you, but you don't drink.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.

When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!