John Selden Quotes

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

There's no excuses for over-drinking.

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

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

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

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

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I wasn't really an alcoholic, but I was losing control. I still go for a beer, but I drink a lot less.

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.

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

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

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

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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

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.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

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.

When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.