John Boyle Quotes

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

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

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Drinking is the joy of the Russes. We cannot live without that pleasure

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is when people that do drink, don't drink around me.

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

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.