Francois Rabelais Quotes

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

… there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

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

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.