Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

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.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I drink no more than a sponge.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

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

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.

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

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

I didn't even drink in college.

I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude.

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.

Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.

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

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

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

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

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

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