Elaine Stritch Quotes

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.

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

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

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

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up.

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

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

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

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

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.

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

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.