Edmund Spenser Quotes

Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

Wine is connected to abundance.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

I'm not here to tell anyone how to party. I'm just here to say, 'Please, party as hard as you can.'

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

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.

Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.

Prosperity lets goe the bridle.

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

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.