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

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

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

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

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

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.

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wish to do so. I never, ever drink while on duty. The drinking is only for my pleasure. I do not remember neglecting my duties because of drinking even once.

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've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

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

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

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.

I am not going to sit here and say I am never going to drink again. That is not realistic.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

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 had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

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.

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

I drink no more than a sponge.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.