John Wayne Quotes

I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

Hypocrites and frauds of old used to drink a thousand times more, secretly in hovels as they indulged in all sorts of nastiness. I am not a fraud. I drink in my nation’s honor.

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

Wine cheers God and man.

There was one civil custom used in (and in few but) the English nation, which this gentleman did endeavour to abolish in this country; and that was, the usage of drinking to one another. For although by drinking to one another, no more is meant than an act of courtesie, when one going to drink, does invite another to do so too, for the same ends with himself; nevertheless the governour considered the impertinency and insignifcancy of this usage, as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it ; and that indeed it ordinarily served for no ends at all, but only to provoke persons unto, unseasonable and perhaps unreasonable drinking, and at last produce that abominable health-drinking.

It is not the multitude of ale-houses ... that occasions a general disposition to drunkenness among the common people; but that disposition, arising from other causes, necessarily gives employment to a multitude of ale-houses

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.

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

I like beer.

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

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

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 never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.

To drink away sorrow.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

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

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

Never drink alone, that's what they say. But you know what? If you drink you will never be alone, alright?

There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.