Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

I promise ... to abstain from all kinds of intoxicating drink, unless used medically.

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

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

I am not a member of any temperance society; but I am temperate, in this, that I don’t drink anything.

Drunkenness was attacked in the same manner; it was discountenanced on every occasion by those who had charge of any department: its destructive and pernicious effects were frequently stated by his own more prudent comrades, at the proper moment when the individual was soberly suffering from the effects of his previous excess; pot- and public-houses were gradually removed from the immediate vicinity of their dwellings; the health and comfort of temperance were made familiar to them; by degrees drunkenness disappeared, and many who were habitual bacchanalians are now conspicuous for undeviating sobriety.

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

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.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

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

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

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

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 never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

No brothers shall make, buy, sell, or use, as a beverage, any spirituous or Malt Liquors, Wine, or Cider.

Yes I drink, but at least I don't drink blood!

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

I can go eight days without a drink—but who wants to be a camel.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

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

This is not a prohibitive society. We're not going to tell people they can't smoke. We learned that we can't tell people they can't drink.

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.

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.

Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.

The saloon is as dead as slavery.

The exclusion of wine from the list of refreshments has turned out exceedingly well. There is a great deal of dissipation here [in Washington DC] At the reception of the British Minister, and that of the Mexican Minister, disgraceful things were done by young men, made reckless by too much wine. Hence the necessity of our course is obvious, and is commended in unexpected quarters. Many of the foreign gentlemen speak of it with approval. We shall stick to it.