Wine Quotes · Page 192

I love cigarettes. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is.

— Sienna Miller

I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.

— Samuel Johnson

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would…

— Bob Dole

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

— Kurt Vile

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger…

— Anonymous

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill…

— Billie Holiday

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

— John Walters

Addiction doesn't kill the addict. It kills the family, kids and people who tried to help!

— Abhishek Tiwari

Now, this is the fun part about getting stoned. They get stoned, then they become paranoid. Now, when they started out, they…

— Bill Cosby

Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic…

— Douglas Valentine

“The most dangerous drink is gin. You have to be really, really careful with that. And you also have to be 45,…

— Dylan Moran

It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a…

— Philip Connors

When you look at the potential of such a zero-risk products as electronic cigarettes you need to understand what is the readiness…

— Andre Calantzopoulos

“The war mentality represents an unfortunate confluence of ignorance, fear, prejudice, and profit. ... The ignorance exists in its own right and…

— Gabor Maté

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I started drinking in my late teen years and continued through college and into the early years of my career. I had…

— Marissa Nadler

Sorry you're having trouble determining if your nausea and vomiting are from the flu or your horrible drinking problem.

— Anonymous

“I'll email you,” he says as if he's asking me into the cellar to taste his vintage champagne.”

— Poppet

“Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Why do we want to test people for drugs and alcohol? Why don't we test them from stupidity, illiteracy and avarice? The…

— Anonymous

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his…

— Tom Stoppard

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

— Charles Dickens

“And though he knew it was only the whiskey talking, he also knew that the whiskey talked daily.”

— Nick Flynn

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

— Stan Bowles

“No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”

— Samuel Johnson

People confuse the fact that I discuss drinking openly with the idea that I'm a heavy drinker. I don't want girls at…

— Chelsea Handler

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

— Anonymous

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

— Billy Crystal

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

— Jandy Nelson

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

— Arturo Toscanini

I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows…

— Jeff Dunham

Vodka! That's a child's drink, why am I drinking this stupid drink, oh and why am I on a traffic island?

— Dylan Moran

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were…

— Lars von Trier

“More wine?” Tyrion asked him. “I should not object,” Lord Janos said, holding out his cup. He was built like a keg,…

— George R.R. Martin

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

— Melissa Etheridge

“Well hello, honey, I've been out boozing and whoring. I know, my priorities are pretty off.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.”

— Muriel Barbery

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty,…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from…

— Fernando Pessoa

I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to…

— Omar Khayyam