John Lyly Quotes

He who drinks too much beer must drink water

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

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.

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

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.

Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

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

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

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

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.

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

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

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.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

I don't drink as much as I use to could.

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

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

He who loves wine … shall not be rich.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.

Drinking is the joy of the Russes. We cannot live without that pleasure

We knew the old liar drank a lot, but now we know just how much: 'He begins the morning with a sherry, then has a bottle of Burgundy with lunch. He often has a glass of port after lunch, but always one after dinner. There is whiskey in the afternoon and Champagne with dinner. Then some more port, and a glass of Cognac. As the night goes on, a whiskey and soda...'