Aldrich Henry 1647-1710
A Catch
If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine, a friend, or being dry,
Or lest we should be by and by;
Or any other reason why.
Anonymous
If all the world were paper,
And all the sea were ink,
And all the trees were bread and cheese
What should we do for drink?
Anonymous
He wouldn't give a duck if he owned
Lake Michigan.
The Bible
Old Testament: Ecclesiastes ch.8 v.15
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
The Bible
Old Testament:Isaiah ch.22 v.13
Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
The Bible
Old Testament: Proverbs ch.31 v.6
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Burns Robert 1759-1796
‘There was a Lass'
A man may drink and no be drunk;
A man may fight and no be slain;
A man may kiss a bonnie lass,
And aye be welcome back again.
Chaucer Geoffrey c.1343-1400
The Canterbury Tales
Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes,
And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood.
Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
Fields W.C. 1880-1946
It is a woman who drove me to drink - and, you know, I never even thanked her.
Herbert George 1593-1633
Drink not the third glass - which thou can't not tame when once it is within thee.
Jackson Thomas (Stonewall) 1824-1863
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Jonson Ben c. 1573-1637
‚,To Celia"
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.
Jonson Ben c. 1573-1637
Volpone
Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber;
Which we will take, until my roof whirl around
With the vertigo: and my dwarf shall dance.
Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930
‘Don'ts'
Don't be sucked in by the su-superior,
don't swallow the culture bait,
don't drink, don't drink and get beerie and
beerier,
do learn to discriminate.
Lawrence D.H. 1885-1930
‘Snake'
A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
McArthur Alexander and Long H. Kingley
‘Advice to a Lady'
Battles and sex are the only free diversions in slum life. Couple them with drink,
which costs money, and you have the three principal outlets for that escape
complex which is for ever working in the tenement dweller's subconscious mind.
Madam Geoffrey 1895-1947
I love drink, so long as it isn't in moderation.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
Mottoes and Slogans
(advertising slogan, Milk Marketing Board)
Drinka Pinta Milka Day.
Mottoes and Slogans
(slogan, road safety)
Don't ask a man to drink and drive.
Nathan George Jean 1882-1958
I drink to make other people interesting.
O'Faolain Sean 1900
An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Criticism
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.
Proverbs and Sayings
Spanish
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Rabelais François c.1994-c.1553
Gargantua
I drink for the thirst to come.
Reeve Christopher
in Superman
"I never drink when I fly."
Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1946
Afterthoughts ‘In the World'
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
Spooner Rev.W.A. 1844-1930
(attributed)
Let us drink to the queer old Dean.
Tarkington Booth 1869-1946
Penrod
There are two things that will be believed or any man whatsoever,
and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
Waugh Evelyn 1903-1966
(asked what he did for his college)
I drink for it.
Anonymous
He who drinketh by the inch and speaketh by the yard shall be kicketh by the foot.
Bogart Humphrey 1899-1957
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
Thomas Dylan 1914-1953
(defining an alcoholic)
A man you don't like who drinks as much as you do.