George Herbert Quotes

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

At the third cup, wine drinks the man.

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

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

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

He who drinks too much beer must drink water

I have never been drunk in my life, and I don't expect I ever will be.

A good glass of red wine or maybe a little bit too much every now and then is just fine. Heavy boozing, not so much, because you don't recover enough from it.

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

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

I drink no more than a sponge.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor.

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

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

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

I've always loved my red wine, and when I'm not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so it's one for me and one for the casserole. I would consume a bottle of wine on my own of an evening and then literally pass out.

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.

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.