George W. Bush Quotes

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

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

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

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

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

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.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

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

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whoever is deceived by it is not wise

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

Drunkenness excuseth no vice.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

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.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'

Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of people. It seemed to me best to go back to the old situation in which, if a man or woman drank to excess, they were injuring themselves and their immediate family and friends and the act was a violation against their own sense of morality and no violation against the law of the land.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.