Francois Rabelais Quotes

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 haven't taken into account how much I drink. I do drink a lot when I am on stage anyway. You will see me come back and have sips of water. I haven't taken into account how much.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.

If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is culpable; if he gets drunk twice a month it is better; if once a month, this is still more laudable; and if one does not drink at all what can be better? But where can I find such a man? If such a man were found he would be worthy of the highest esteem.

The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

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

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

I drink no more than a sponge.

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

When I'm with the wife, and we're having a romantic night, I occasionally think about a glass of red wine, but I'll order a sparkling water. I'd like the wine, but it wouldn't end with one glass, so I don't even go there.

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

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

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.

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

I didn't even drink in college.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

I drink for the thirst to come.

I'm going to keep drinking on stage. I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. I know how far to go and when to stop.

Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.