Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

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

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

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

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad.

There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.

Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.