Kinky Friedman Quotes

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

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

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

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.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

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

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

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

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

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

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

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

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

A man should be able to have a whiskey in the evening without jeopardizing his health

I drank too much, only champagne.

I did so many crazy things while drinking.

I've found for playing that it's generally not a good thing to be drinking.

I drink Jack Daniel's. I drink tequila. But you do it in moderation.

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.

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

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.