Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking and realised New York still has a lot of charm, but it has become so bourgeois and affluent -… — Moby Copy Share Image
Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted… — David A. Embury Copy Share Image
Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it. — Marian Engel Copy Share Image
I wish I could trade my heart in for another liver. Then I could drink more and care less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I… — Brantley Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine,… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I went out with a guy who once told me I didnt need to drink to make myself more fun to be… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at. — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking when I was 23. I kind of started when I was 13, so it was a 10-year run. But… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
“I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy” — Dean Martin Copy Share Image