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  •    I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood.

    -Anonymous
    c.1575  Song, included in the play Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 2. 'Him that wears a hood' is either a monk or a scholar.

  •    Boire sans soif et faire l'amour en tout temps, Madame, il n'y a que  c° a qui nous distingue des autres be"  tes. We drink when we are not thirstyand make love at any time, Madam. These are the only things which distinguish us from other animals.

    - Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
      Le Mariage de Figaro, act 2, sc.21.

  • Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes 9:7.

  • Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 5:11.

  • And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 22:13.

  • And whosoever shallgiveto drinkunto one of theselittle ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew10:42.

  •    The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians11:23^6.

  • What advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. See Parker 638:61.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians15:32.

  •    The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life: Drink this in remembrance that Christ's Blood was shed for thee, and be thankful.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Holy Communion.

  • Thy rebukehath brokenmy heart;Iam full of heaviness: I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Psalm 69:21^2.

  • This world's no blot for us Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

    - Robert Browning
      Men and Women,'Fra Lippo Lippi'.

  • Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd, Or cutty sarks run in your mind, Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear 172 RememberTam o' Shanter's mare.

    - Robert Burns
      'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

  •    Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

    -Rochdale
    Sardanapalus, act1, sc.2.

  • I am willing to taste any drink once.

    -James Branch Cabell
      Jurgen, ch.1.

  • No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkennessor so good as drink.

    - G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
      All Things Considered,'Wine When It Is Red'.

  • 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.

    - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.2.

  • Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I, Why, man of morals, tell me why?

    - Abraham Cowley
      'Drinking'.

  • I spent $3m on drink and $3m on gambling, but I wasted the rest.

    -John Daly
      On spending his winnings. Quoted in The Independent, 23 Dec.

  • 'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to melodging, wife, and children reading, writing and 'rithmeticsnuff, tobacker, and sleep.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^50  Man on the Canterbury coach. David Copperfield, ch.19.

  • I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^7  Flora Finching. Little Dorrit, bk.1, ch.24.

  • The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good. 308

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.4.

  • Iwas inlove with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

    -W C originally  William Claude Dukenfield Fields
    Never Give a Sucker an Even Break.

  • Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go nor where.

    - Edward Fitzgerald
     The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza 74.

  • Inside this Hollywood playboy is a someway decent actor waiting for a chance to prove it. But, since Hollywood will never give me that chance, I drink to

    - Dario Fo
    controversial plays  and revues  deal with political  themes.  His plays   include  Accidental   Death   of   an   Anarchist   (1970)   and Trumpets  and  Raspberries  (1984).  He  was  awarded  the  Nobel prize for literature in1997.

  • : Say, is it too early for a drink? : What's early about it? It's tomorrow in Europe and yesterday in China.

    - Ruth Gordon
      MAXPOLLY1943  Over Twenty-One, act 3.

  • Seg u n un yanqui que debe ser todo un derrochador, es Cuba donde mejor se come siempre y se bebe. According to a gringo who must be a true spendthrift, Cuba is always the best place to eat and to drink.

    - Nicola  s Guille  n
      Sa  tira pol|  tica,'Depende' ('It Depends').

  • I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

    - (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett
      The Maltese Falcon,'The Fat Man'.

  • Nothing†makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get the taste for it they take to it like drink.

    - Shirley Hazzard
      People in Glass Houses,'Official Life'.

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

    - George Herbert
    'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

  • Let others drink thee freely; and desire Thee and their lips espous'd; while I admire, And love thee; but not taste thee. Let my Muse Fail of thy former helps; and only use Her inadult'rate strength: what's done by me Hereafter, shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

    - Robert Herrick
      'His Fare-well to Sack'.

  • Man wants but little drink below, But wants that little strong.

    - Oliver Wendell Holmes
      'A Song of Other Days'.

  • Nunc est bibendum! Now is the time to drink!

    -Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
    Odes, bk.1, no.37, l.1.

  • We drink one another's healths, and spoil our own.

    -Jerome K(lapka) Jerome
      Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,'On Eating and Drinking'.

  • 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
      The Forest,'To Celia'.

  • O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Proven c° al song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.

    -John Keats
      Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode to a Nightingale', stanza 2.

  • I'm going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the worldand, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night's sleep.

    - Brian Keenan
      Said on his release, BBC  T V, 25  Aug.

  • March is the month that God designed to show those who don't drink what a hangover is like.

    - (Gary Edward) Garrison Keillor
      In NPR broadcast,1 Dec.

  • Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

    -Jean ne  e  Collins Kerr
      Poor Richard, act1.

  • A certain sort of friendship soon arose between the Fans and me.We each recognized that we belonged to that same section of thehumanrace with whom it isbetter to drink than to fight.We knew we would each have killed the other, if sufficient inducement were offered, and so we took a certain amount of care that the inducement should not arise.

    - Mary Henrietta Kingsley
      Travels in West  Africa (published1899).

  • The departed was a 'Roman', and the majority of the town were otherwisebut unionism is stronger than creed. Drink, however, is stronger than unionism; and, whenthehearse presentlyarrived, morethantwo-thirds of the funeral were unable to follow.

    - Henry Hertzberg Lawson
      'The Union Buries its Dead', first published in Truth,  Apr.

  • I distrust camels and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

    -Joe E Lewis
    Recalled on his death, 4  Jun1971.

  • A man takes a drink, a drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

    - (Harry) Sinclair Lewis
    Words to his future wife, Dorothy Thompson. Quoted in Vincent Sheean Dorothy and Red (1963).

  • Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

    - (Lula) Carson ne  e Smith McCullers
      Clock Without Hands.

  • The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.

    -William McGonagall
    Last Poetic Gems (published1968),'The Demon Drink', stanza 9.

  • By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

    - Don(ald Robert Perry) Marquis
    Quoted in E  Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

  • I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

    - H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
      In the NewYork Post,18 Sep.

  • Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

    - Edna St Vincent Millay
    Fatal Interview, title of poem.

  •    And now the curse has come upon us, because I have personally met in the streets of Ireland persons who are clearly out of Synge's plays. They talk and dress like that, and damn the drink they'll swally but the mug of porter in the long nights after Samhain.

    -Cruise
      The Best of Myles.

  • Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do). See Bible121:16.

    - Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
      Not So Deep as AWell,'The Flaw in Paganism'.

  • One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

    - Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
    Quoted in H Teichmann George S Kaufman (1972).

  • 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
    An Essay on Criticism, l.215^8.

  • The more you drink, the more you crave.

    - Alexander Pope
      Imitations of Horace, bk.2, espistle 2, l.212.

  • Thetrouble isthat we drink toomuchtea.I see inthisthe slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.

    -J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
      In the Observer,15 May.

  • They never taste who always drink; Theyalways talk who never think.

    - Matthew Prior
      'Upon this Passage in Scaligerana'.

  • I am, dear Prue, a little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband,

    - Gertrude Stein
    RICH. STEELE 1708  Letter, 27 Sep (published1787).

  • Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

    -John Millington Synge
      The Playboy of theWesternWorld, act 2.

  • I beg you listen to this advice When you get wine, be sure to drink it.

    -T'ao Ch'ien
    c.400  AD  Collected in Substance, Shadow and Spirit, translated byArthurWaley.

  • There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

    - (Newton) Booth Tarkington
      Penrod, ch.10.

  • I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, council, governments, Myself not least, but honoured of them all; And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windyTroy. I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'Ulysses' (published1842), l.6^24.

  • Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood, We know thee most, we love thee best, For art thou not of British blood?

    -Tennyson
      'Hands all Round', stanza 4, l.37^40.

  • 'I think this calls for a drink' has long been one of our national slogans.

    -James Grover Thurber
      Alarms and Diversions,'Merry Christmas'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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