Plato Quotes

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

He [Peter the Great] took his bottle heartily, so must all the company; for when he was merry himself he loved to see everybody so; though at the same time he could not endure habitual drinkers, for such he thought unfit for business.

I'm not no 'drink wine every day' kind of dude.

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.

Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often...wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

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

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.

None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.