George Burns Quotes

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

I drank too much, only champagne.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

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

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

I'm on a whisky diet... last week, I lost three days!

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

There's no excuses for over-drinking.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

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 admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

I like the effect drink has on me.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.