Eat at pleasure,
Drink in measure. [ Proverb ]
Bread at pleasure,
Drink by measure. [ Proverb ]
Ever drink, ever dry. [ Proverb ]
As you brew, so drink. [ Proverb ]
Drink, pretty creature, drink! [ Wordsworth ]
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink. [ Coleridge ]
Eat well is drink wells brother. [ Proverb ]
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. [ Ben Jonson ]
When drink is in, the wit is out. [ Proverb ]
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]
Where drink goes in, wit goes out. [ Proverb ]
Let none say I will not drink water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If you brew well you may drink well. [ Proverb ]
They that drink longest live longest. [ Proverb ]
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn,
What dangers thou canst make us scorn. [ Burns ]
Better belly burst than good drink lost. [ Proverb ]
Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it. [ Prior ]
Oh! in that future let us think
To hold each heart the heart that shares;
With them the immortal waters drink,
And, soul in soul, grow deathless theirs! [ Byron ]
Gossips are frogs,—they drink and talk. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I'll never brew drink to treat drunkards. [ Proverb ]
I cannot sell the cow and drink her milk. [ Proverb ]
Drink and drought come not always together. [ Proverb ]
A little learning is a dangerous thing:
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. [ Alexander Pope ]
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head. [ William Penn ]
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. [ J. G. Saxe ]
Fill what you will, and drink what you fill. [ Proverb ]
What can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease and not be bound to think? [ Dryden ]
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [ Seneca ]
Draff was his errand, but drink he would have. [ Proverb ]
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man. [ Proverb ]
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. [ Zimmermann ]
How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]
What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]
When a dog is drowning every one offers him drink. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Who likes not the drink, God deprives him of bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. [ Prov. 23: 21 ]
You drink vinegar when you have wine at your elbow. [ Proverb ]
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Contempt will cause Spite to drink of her own poison. [ Proverb ]
If you could run as you drink you might catch a hare. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A bellyful is a bellyful, whether it be meat or drink. [ Proverb ]
Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat. [ Proverb ]
To swill and drink, is to turn tripe wife and wash guts. [ Proverb ]
A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service. [ Plato ]
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees. [ Tennyson ]
Drink wine, and have the gout, drink none, and have it too. [ Proverb ]
A man may lead his horse to water but cannot make him drink. [ Proverb ]
Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine. [ Ben Jonson ]
Speak when you're spoken to, and drink when you're drunken to. [ Proverb ]
Those that eat the best and drink the best, commonly do worst. [ Proverb ]
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. [ William Shakespeare ]
'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea +{Drink, Drunkenness} and coffee leave us much more serious. [ Byron ]
As adversaries in law, strive mightily; but eat and drink as friends. [ William Shakespeare ]
The smaller the drink, the cooler the blood, and the clearer the head. [ Proverb ]
Life resembles a cup of clear water which becomes muddy as we drink it. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]
Penny in purse will make me drink, when all the friends I have will not. [ Proverb ]
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. [ Fielding ]
Temperance is the love of health - or the inability to eat or drink much. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Though your water be never so muddy, do not say, I will never drink of it. [ Proverb ]
You drink out of the broad end of the funnel, and hold the little one to me. [ Proverb ]
He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old books to read. [ Alonzo of Arragon ]
You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe. [ Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, The Sour-Toe Cocktail ]
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink. [ Bible ]
Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
When an old man will not drink, you may safely promise him a visit in the next world. [ Proverb ]
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. [ Swift ]
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. [ Bacon ]
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. [ Cicero ]
When asked what kind of wine he liked to drink he replied, That which belongs to another.
[ Diogenes Laertius ]
There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. [ Judge Coleridge ]
Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter. [ Diderot ]
Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. [ William Shakespeare ]
A vine bears three grapes - the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. [ Anacharsis ]
To drink without thirst, to make love without cessation: this is what distinguishes us from the lower animals. [ Beaumarchais, Marriage of Figaro ]
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. [ Saville ]
Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. [ Jesus ]
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]
We all drink at the spring of happiness in a fractured vase: when it reaches our lips, there is almost nothing left in it. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. [ Sirach ]
The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He was a kind and thankful toad, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer; and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink. [ Washington Irving ]
We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away;
but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]
It is now the very witching time of night; when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, and do such business as the bitter day would quake to look on. [ William Shakespeare ]
As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as of a river, and refresh our wings in it for future flight. [ Hazlitt ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]
Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink: but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system. [ Thackeray ]
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]
If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!
and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.
Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]