Mark McKinney Quotes

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

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.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

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

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

At the third cup, wine drinks the man.

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

I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

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.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

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.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.