Malcolm Forbes 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.

Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

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.

When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, people drink.

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

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

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

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.

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

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

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

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

I find drinking really helps.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

My friends drink everywhere. They even drink at the laundromat. I tried drinking at the laundromat, and I thought I was in a submarine, navigating the Sea of White Panties with my Spanish-speaking crew. I was like, "Mrs. Sanchez, set the coordinates to Permanent Press! Give me some quarters and another drink! This place is starting to look like a laundromat."

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.