Joe E. Lewis Quotes

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.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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

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

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

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

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

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.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

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

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 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.

I don't drink as much as I use to could.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

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

He who drinks too much beer must drink water

After the White House, what is there to do but drink?

My wife doesn't drink. I don't think a girl's desire to drink or not has any effect on guys. At all.

I thought everybody had to drink to be in this business.

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

I didn't even drink in college.

I received the same kind of question many times. Do I drink? Of course I do. I do what all others do.

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

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