Quotes by American Authors - Page 186

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
Mark Twain
You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.
Mark Twain
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W.C.Fields
It was a woman who drove me to drink - and you know I never even thanked her.
W.C.Fields
I exercise self-control and never touch any beverage stronger than gin before breakfast.
W.C.Fields
He who laughs lasts.
Mary Poole
An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
Alvan L. Barach
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
Robert Benchley
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Dean Martin
They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?
Jay Leno
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
W.C.Fields
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
Tomb thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong but Life is stronger Stronger than the dark the light Stronger than the wrong the right Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
Phillips Brooks
Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?
Thomas Jefferson
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee water milk soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing I will make mine whisky.
W.C.Fields
Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownings It is estimated that when a woman contracts the disease her husband leaves her in nine out often cases when a man contracts it his wife leaves in one out of ten cases.
Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald
Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more.
Robert C. Edwards
I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan
Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.
John Erskine
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.
George Gobel
He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.
John Barrymore
First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A torch-light procession marching down your throat.
John L. O'Sullivan
Eat to please thyself but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin
When you're all dressed up and no place to go.
Benjamin Hapgood Burt
Till the day when I'll be going down that Long long trail with you.
Stoddard King
If there were dreams to sell Merry and sad to tell And the crier rung his bell What would you buy?
T. L. Beddoes
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
William Sloane Coffin
In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
Bernie S. Siegel
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."
Lauren Bacall
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Kerrigan
Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Christian Bovee
Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.
Helen Hayes
When in doubt do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!
Edith M. Thomas
I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.
Jill Trenary
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.
E. Stanley Jones
Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.
Lillian Carter
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.
Henry Ford II
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.
Nancy Woodhull
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
John H. Finley
Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.
Zora Neale Hurston