Toni Morrison Quotes

And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

He who drinks too much beer must drink water

I drink a lot of everything; beer while watching football. I have a taste for whiskey, but Jack Daniels and ginger is about as fancy as it gets with me.

It is better to be full of drink than full of food.

I just feel like, if I drink, I want to drink a case of beer and not two beers. Two beers doesn't do anything for me.

Excess in moderation: don't drink a few beers every day after work, wait 'till the end of the month and drink all the beers at once.

I never went out in the morning with the intention of getting drunk. It just happened.

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

I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

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.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

I'm sticking with the Heinekens, but doing a few shots here and there.

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.