Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

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

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

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.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

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

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

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...'

There's no excuses for over-drinking.

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.

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.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

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.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

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

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

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

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.