Bowls Quote by Abraham Cowley

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?

— Abraham Cowley

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing…

— Anita Shreve

What's the point of staying sober?

— Oliver Reed

“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

— Alexander Pope

“[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What…

— David Carr

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

— Ellen Glasgow

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best…

— Anonymous

“It is only when a Christian recognizes that drinking is not only a harmful habit, but also a transgression of a God-given principle to…

— Samuele Bacchiocchi

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in liberty moderation…

— Seneca the Younger

“Why don’t you give up drinking?” “Because I don’t choose. It doesn’t matter what a man does if he’s ready to take the consequences.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

To drink is to warm the heart; without dispelling reason, it gives reason to life.

— Jose Maria Peman